History Quotes

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It's up to history to judge.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.