History Quotes - Page 16

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages.

A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.