“Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.”
Topic
history
951 quotes
Quotes, most loved first
“Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.”
“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”
“Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.”
“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.”
“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”
“I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.”
“Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.”
“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”
“Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.”
“The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.”
“The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
“Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.”
“In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.”
“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.”
“I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.”
“The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.”
“Sometimes - history needs a push.”
“If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!”
“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”
“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.”
“The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.”
“We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.”