History Quotes

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

I like American history.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

I'm covering the worst president in American history.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.