History Quote by John Sweeney Download Open image ““Our ignorance of history makes us slander our own times, wrote Gustave Flaubert.”” — John Sweeney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gustave Flaubert History
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." — Gustave Flaubert” — Minnie Estelle Miller Copy Share Image
I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.” — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It wasn't enough just to read and study historical facts, whoever studied history should consider Themselves creators of history” — U Aung San Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.” — peter adejimi Copy Share Image
“And the past, for those foolish enough to subscribe to it, holds a grudge harder than anything known to man.” — Jobie Hughes Copy Share Image
“History is not made every day because it takes extraordinary people to create history, who have an iron will and not afraid of taking… — John Taskinsoy Copy Share Image
It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children,… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to work with… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
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