History Quotes

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

World history is a court of judgment.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.