History Quotes

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.