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History Quotes by Edward Said
- The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
- History is written by those who win and those who dominate.
- Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the…
- My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and…
- Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure…
- exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place,…
- We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough