Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: history

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

God has a team. It's made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team.

You either make money, or you make history.

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

There's never been someone like me in history - a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

We can't change the past but we can learn from history and remember the important things - the sacrifices our loved ones made, and the price of our freedom today.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History should be written as philosophy.

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

My inspiration is love and history.

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

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.

American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

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!

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.