History Quotes - Page 17

The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would create new bonds of unity through its elimination and transcending of the party system, was highly attractive and conveyed much of Nazism's dynamic appeal.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

History repeats itself.

There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

What is not recorded is not remembered.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

The midwife of history is violence.

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.