History Quotes

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.

I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.