History quotes

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.