History Quotes

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

I want to go down in history.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

History is always changing.

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.