History quotes

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

History passes the final judgment.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

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

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.