In history people dressed much better than we do today.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

I wouldn’t wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I’ve come to know her that way, too.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

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

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

Fashion breaks my heart.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

If… 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.

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

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla – a rebel.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

How 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.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

To 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.

The one thing I couldn’t identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny’s Child’s, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

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.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

I want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I’m deciding what to wear, I don’t run out of options. I love shopping!

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.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

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.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!