History Quotes

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

Barack Obama is the worst President in history.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.