Quotes about History

“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”

“Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.”

“People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.”

“Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.”

“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”

“History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.”

“Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.”

“The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.”

“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”

“The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for their cultural practices throughout history.”

“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”

“Black history is American history.”

“World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.”

“Here's what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.”

“More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.”

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”

“I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”

“The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.”

“It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.”

“But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.”