History Quote by William Pfaff Download Open image ““The accounts that history presents have to be paid.”” — William Pfaff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
“A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“History is always written by the winners...By its very nature, its always a one-sided account” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.” — Andrew M. Davis Copy Share Image
“The real rich people doesn't have bank accounts, they have treasures.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“What do we owe for what has come before us, the previous generation?... The problem is that we can never enter this shadow world… — David Vann Copy Share Image
“Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and studying that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer. — William Pfaff 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
