I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

Latin music is universal.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Every 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.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Study men, not historians.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.