Famous Quotes: History

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
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You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
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If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
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I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
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Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.
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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.
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You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.
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