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“History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.”
Quote by -Heraclitus
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“History doesn’t go in a straight line... Over time there’s a kind of a general trajectory towards a more just society, with regressions and reversals of course.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to—rather than alleviate—material and cultural deficit. If”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. And the issue is not what reward or what punishment will be the outcome of that reasoning. The issue is simply whether or not 2+2=4.”
Quote by -Albert Camus
“Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”
Quote by -Benjamin Disraeli
“doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
Quote by -D.H. Lawrence
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Quote by -Alexander Pope
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
“History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.”
Quote by -C.S. Lewis
“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
Quote by -C.S. Lewis
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
Quote by -B. H. Liddell Hart
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
Quote by -Doris Lessing
“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.
Quote by -James Madison
I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
Quote by -Hugh Laurie
My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby's or something.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
Quote by -Alan Bennett
It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
Quote by -Alan Bennett
History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so.
Quote by -Alan Bennett
"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."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."
Quote by -John F Kennedy