if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree. — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
“Review history, visionaries advanced our civilization. Without them, we'd have been still in a barbaric and chaotic world. Thank you!!!” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
“But I did get to see the sunrise from 36,000 feet above the ground, and it occurred to me that until a… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you go to Udaipur, even the locals from the lower middle class have a certain air about them. They are very… — Ishaan Khatter Copy Share Image
You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it—or my observation of it—is temporary?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Scots studied the past to understand the present, and of course improve it. Like the ancient Greeks and the Chinese, they… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“Doctor Spielvogel, it alleviates nothing fixing the blame - blaming is still ailing, of course, of course - but nonetheless, what was… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It holds almost universally in the history of the church, that until a doctrine has been fully discussed in a controversial way… — William Cunningham Copy Share Image
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words. — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“History alone looks upon war as a grand achievement; all else look upon it as a dreadful last resort.” — Dennis L. McKiernan Copy Share Image
It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself. — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Parliament's centuries of history have been overwhelmingly dominated by men, but things are changing. — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
