Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: history

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'

The attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the darkest moments in our nation's history, and we will forever remember the thousands of service members and civilians whose lives were tragically taken on that horrible day.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.

I just like winning every tournament that I play. All of them are important for me. Each has its own history, its own characteristic, but they are all important.

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That's just world history; you don't have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

History is a vast early warning system.

One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.

It has nothing to do with money. We don't play for Australia to get paid. We play for the pride of our country and the opportunity to create history and be the best team in the world.

The Germs' contribution to history sucks as far as I'm concerned.

Brock Lesnar is the most unique athlete in this history of World Wrestling Entertainment, and I say that with without embellishment or exaggeration.

I love the fact that, if I don't win multiple championships, that I probably won't be mentioned amongst the other guys in Celtics history who've done it before. That type of stuff motivates me.

I've always been known as a pure scorer, and I've always said if I just sat outside and shot 3s and just really focused on that - coming off of screens and spot-up 3s - and shot six or seven 3s a game, I would probably be more known as one of the greatest shooters in NBA history.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day - and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.