Best Their History Quotes
69 Their History quotes by 62 unique authors
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To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now-at the highest levels of the federal government.
— Kim Campbell
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We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want…
— Bruce Barcott
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Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have done well enough…
— David Pryce-Jones
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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has…
— Richard Le Gallienne
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand…
— Alfred de Vigny
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could…
— Manuel Puig
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It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology,…
— Frederick Lenz
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It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their…
— Sidney Blumenthal
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Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
— Slobodan Milosević
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most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
— Ernst Mayr
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The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston…
— Janeane Garofalo
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice.…
— Zaha Hadid
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It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history,…
— Audre Lorde
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Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
— Azar Nafisi
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It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their…
— Michael Nesmith
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
— Camille Paglia
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Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history…
— Steven Spielberg
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
— George Orwell
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...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
— Zadie Smith
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Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor…
— Nelson Mandela
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Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what…
— Lauren Willig
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I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings,…
— Dean Koontz
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The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave…
— Amilcar Cabral
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