America Quote by Abhay Deol

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.

— Robert Hass

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for…

— N. T. Wright

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

— Claude Vorilhon

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against…

— Anais Nin

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices…

— James Howard Kunstler

My take is that there's two ways to approach history. You sit in your armchair and you watch it on the news and you…

— Tom Morello

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

— Terence McKenna

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

— Jesmyn Ward

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and…

— Anonymous

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly, no matter…

— Ruby Bridges