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History Quotes by Wendell Berry
- We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
- One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
- As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong…
- History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of…
- But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere…
- And so there would always be more to remember that could no longer be seen...our history is always returning to a little patch of weeds…
- History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has…
- We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but…
- I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the…
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