History Quotes - Page 28

The Thames is liquid history.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

One must overcome history by dogma.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

I am a Scorpio, and playing the seductress appeals to me. There are a lot of women throughout film history, like Marlene Dietrich or Mae West - those are the women I was always attracted to. The bad girls.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.