Top History Quotes

Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant,...

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

History Definition

(n.) A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.

(n.) A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.

(v. t.) To narrate or record.

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to loo...

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it...

...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes make them stronger.

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality,

As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher power, or some god-like influence on man. Because it then becomes th...

In the same way that Americans now look back with horrified disbelief on the evils of slavery and the 'separate but equal' era of racial segregation, many years from now our children and grandchildren...

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just th...

Historians of technology have asked why no industrial revolution developed in antiquity. The simple answer seems to be that there was no need, that contemporary modes of production and the slave-based...

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

If you are kind enough today, history will sing your song and be kind to you.

History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same...