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"History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!"
Quote by -John Ruskin
"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
Quote by -Ambrose Bierce
"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
"There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
"The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day."
Quote by -David Sedaris
“We can no longer rely on tradition, on consensus, on cultural habit, on unanimity of belief to give us our values. These agreed-upon traditions are all gone. Of course, we never should have rested on traditionas its failures must have proven to everyone by now-it never was a firm foundation. It was destroyed too easily by truth, by honesty, by the facts, by science, by simple, pragmatic, historical failure.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“But being ruined by taxes is not the worst you have to fear. What security would you have for your lives? How can any of you be sure you would have the free enjoyment of your religion long? Would you put your religion in the power of any set of men living? Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fail of course.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“The history of Germany is a history of wars between the emperor and the princes and states; of wars among the princes and states themselves; of the licentiousness of the strong, and the oppression of the weak; of foreign intrusions, and foreign intrigues; of requisitions of men and money disregarded, or partially complied with; of attempts to enforce them, altogether abortive, or attended with slaughter and desolation, involving the innocent with the guilty; of general imbecility, confusion, and misery.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Quote by -Zoe Saldana
I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.
Quote by -Zoe Saldana
Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.
Quote by -Zinedine Zidane
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Quote by -Walter Bagehot
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
Quote by -Will Durant
One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages.
Quote by -Will Durant
...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.
Quote by -Will Durant
When a man is interested in the past he writes history; when he is interested in the future he makes it.
Quote by -Will Durant
If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas.
Quote by -Will Durant
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
Quote by -Woody Harrelson
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream.
Quote by -Tom Waits
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this
Quote by -Tony Benn
Der Unterschied zwischen Gott und einem Historiker: Gott kann die Vergangenheit nicht �ndern.
Quote by -Samuel Beckett
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
Quote by -Stephen Colbert
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
Quote by -Steven Spielberg
History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.
Quote by -Sue Monk Kidd
Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
Quote by -Susan B. Anthony
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
Quote by -Jordan Peterson