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The History Of Quotes (page 36)

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. Muhammad Iqbal
The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin. Alphonso Jackson
The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race. Francis William Aston
The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward Carl Bernstein
Julian Barnes quote: "History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the..."
History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated. Julian Barnes
Jean Henri Fabre quote: "The common people have no history: persecuted by the present,..."
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. Jean Henri Fabre
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. Rand Paul
The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history. Henry M. Jackson
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel quote: "History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in..."
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. Winston Churchill
The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The jeep would round the bend, be hit by a dozen bullets at once, and that would be the end of his petty history of unfocused groping and unimportant dissatisfactions. Norman Mailer
The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Himself included in that community as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant. Dallas Willard
The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment, and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important? Herman Hesse

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