Famous Quotes: History

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
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Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
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The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
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The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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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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Natural history is not about producing fables.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
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I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
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