History Quotes

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

History is a relay of revolutions.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.