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Image of John Dalberg-Acton
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
- John Dalberg-Acton
Collection: History
Image of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Collection: History
Image of Jacques Rivette
And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
- Jacques Rivette
Collection: History
Image of Martin Heidegger
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
- Martin Heidegger
Collection: History
Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collection: History
Image of Johan Huizinga
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
- Johan Huizinga
Collection: History
Image of Kamala Harris
A family shares hardships and a connected history.
- Kamala Harris
Collection: History
Image of Michelle Obama
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
- Michelle Obama
Collection: History
Image of Dave Grohl
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
- Dave Grohl
Collection: History
Image of Elie Wiesel
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
- Elie Wiesel
Collection: History
Image of Erik Erikson
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
- Erik Erikson
Collection: History
Image of Canelo Alvarez
There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.
- Canelo Alvarez
Collection: History
Image of Karl Marx
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
- Karl Marx
Collection: History
Image of Andrew Breitbart
The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued institutional racism, while black racism against whites is ignored as an acceptable disposition given our nation's history.
- Andrew Breitbart
Collection: History
Image of Mao Zedong
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
- Mao Zedong
Collection: History
Image of Jose Rizal
If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.
- Jose Rizal
Collection: History
Image of Noam Chomsky
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: History
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: History
Image of Fernand Braudel
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
- Fernand Braudel
Collection: History
Image of Anatole France
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
- Anatole France
Collection: History
Image of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Collection: History
Image of Lew Wallace
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
- Lew Wallace
Collection: History
Image of Molly Ivins
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
- Molly Ivins
Collection: History
Image of Arundhati Roy
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
- Arundhati Roy
Collection: History
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: History
Image of Bill Maher
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
- Bill Maher
Collection: History
Image of Franz Kafka
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
- Franz Kafka
Collection: History
Image of Floyd Patterson
I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
- Floyd Patterson
Collection: History
Image of Deb Haaland
In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and harvests, the prayers that are sent upward for healing and peace, and the welcoming of children into our families, are all reasons for us to keep moving forward with optimism.
- Deb Haaland
Collection: History
Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Collection: History
Image of Jon Meacham
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
- Jon Meacham
Collection: History
Image of Simon Wiesenthal
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Collection: History
Image of Winston Churchill
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: History
Image of Voltaire
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
- Voltaire
Collection: History
Image of Karl Rahner
Grace can and does have a history.
- Karl Rahner
Collection: History
Image of Thierry Henry
I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.
- Thierry Henry
Collection: History
Image of Lauren Boebert
Let's learn from history and take a look at other infamous socialist central-planning experiments like China's Great Leap Forward or the Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan. Like those two disasters, the Green New Deal would cripple our country and sacrifice Americans on the altar of environmental extremism.
- Lauren Boebert
Collection: History
Image of Graydon Carter
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.
- Graydon Carter
Collection: History
Image of Jack Layton
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
- Jack Layton
Collection: History
Image of Nicolas Maduro
Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.
- Nicolas Maduro
Collection: History
Image of Martin Freeman
You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
- Martin Freeman
Collection: History
Image of Rand Paul
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
- Rand Paul
Collection: History
Image of David Attenborough
Natural history is not about producing fables.
- David Attenborough
Collection: History
Image of Benjamin Disraeli
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Collection: History
Image of William Thomas Green Morton
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.
- William Thomas Green Morton
Collection: History
Image of Cheryl Mills
The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.
- Cheryl Mills
Collection: History
Image of Bill Gates
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
- Bill Gates
Collection: History
Image of Judy Chicago
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
- Judy Chicago
Collection: History
Image of Sue Kelly
The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.
- Sue Kelly
Collection: History