Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
Madeleine AlbrightHistory does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl MarxIf anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.
Elon MuskWithout words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann HesseIf… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
Margaret ThatcherThe writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl MarxMan is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Carl JungI’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.
Brian EnoSomeday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
Fidel CastroAssassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin DisraeliEvery time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
Noam ChomskyNo one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
Fidel CastroIt is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl MarxThe ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
VoltaireThe whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Brian EnoAfter Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
Ray BradburyThe true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
George W. BushThe Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Golda MeirNever throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore RooseveltThe revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.
Elon MuskContention existed before the earth was formed.
Russell M. NelsonProbably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George OrwellPoetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
AristotleThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George OrwellGrounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
Carl JungI was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham LincolnIt’s a very good historical book about history.
Dan QuayleEvery age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul SartreAs soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.
Christopher ColumbusYou accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.
Thich Nhat HanhThe history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight D. EisenhowerNewspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur SchopenhauerBaldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston ChurchillSince the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.
Alice WalkerIn the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
Terry PratchettTo all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Queen Elizabeth IIIt is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. FeynmanWe have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. KennedyHold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘
Maya AngelouThe history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
William JamesLatin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.
Noam ChomskyHow many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Leonardo da VinciAmerica has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
Henry KissingerI grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.
Alice WalkerBefore printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David ThoreauNATO has been a thread throughout my life.
Madeleine AlbrightThings have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight D. EisenhowerHistory is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
VoltaireFor Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya AngelouAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert CamusIt was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
Jane GoodallBy curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.
Noam ChomskyIn remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
Queen Elizabeth IINever in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston ChurchillI had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
J. Robert OppenheimerYou think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.
Muhammad AliEngland is a nation of shopkeepers.
Napoleon BonaparteCanada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
Margaret AtwoodThe age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens