The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

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

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

History should be written as philosophy.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

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.

No 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.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

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

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The 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.

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

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

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.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

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.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

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.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.