H Quotes
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“History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.”
“History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.”
“History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetites, which shake the public with the same
—“troublous storms that toss
The private state, and render life unsweet.”
These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men, are the pretexts.”
“History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.”
Source: What is History?
“History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.”
“History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.”
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790
“History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.”
Source: Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation
“History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.”
“History continues until we learn from it and change our course.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.”
“History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper
“History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.”
“History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
A thousand and one remains a thousand,
as though the one had never existed:
an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
...
emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
nobody's place in line.”
“History creates context; context creates meaning.”
Source: The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors And Closing Deals Online: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online with Online Social Networking
“History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.”
“History define humanity.”
“History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.”
“History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.”
“History depends on who is telling the story.”
“History Depicts the Events Happened; the way we Perceive makes the difference”
“History develops, art stands still.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”
Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.”
Source: This Is All
“History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.”
Source: Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political
“History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.”
“History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes were not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.”
“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
“History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona”
“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
“History does not furnish any solution, but it permits — and it alone permits — us to pose the problems corrrectly.”
Source: Those Terrible Middle Ages!: Debunking the Myths
“History does not have sides, although historians do.”
“History does not judge intentions kindly when outcomes cause harm. Declarations of principle mean little if lived realities contradict them. A state is remembered not for what it promised, but for what it delivered. Justice must move from words to experience.”
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.”
“History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads, and other useful public works, the capital needed was provided by the savings of individual citizens and borrowed by the government.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“History does not remember kindness, but men do.”
Source: The Sword and the Hearth
“History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“History does not repeat, but it does instruct.”
Source: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.”
“History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.”
“History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.”
Source: Cryoburn
“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.”
“History does not unfold: it piles up.”
“History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.”
“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; history is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims.”
Source: The Holy Family: Critique of Critical Critique
“History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.”