H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.”
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.”
“History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!”
Source: Their morals and ours: and , The moralists and sycophants against Marxism
“History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases. I don't think that people whose expertise lies in one thing should try to make grand theories about something (a) where it's very hard to get the evidence to prove that you're right and (b) where it's much too easy to make up stories that seem right.”
“History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.”
Source: A summary view of the rights of British America: Set forth in some resolutions intended for the inspection of the present delegates of the people of Virginia, now in convention ...
“History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.”
“History has its truth; and so has legend hers.”
“History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.”
“History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.”
“History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.”
“History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.”
Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
“History has often denied full moral thinking capabilities in women, minorities, the poor, the colonized, and most other human groups. Today, however, those most likely to be thought incapable of moral thought are children. What if, however, childhood taught us to think about ethical thinking in a more expansively human way?”
Source: Ethics in Light of Childhood
“History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.”
“History has proved incontrovertibly that success in great enterprises requires the presence of a leader of unshakeable capacity and power.”
Source: Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
“History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.”
“History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.”
“History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.”
“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris
“History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.”
“History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.”
“History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.”
Source: The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention
“History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.”
“History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.”
“History has seen many who claim to be deliverer and saviour of the people. They might come with force and violence and parade their might and splendour as conquerors. The pharaohs of Egypt, Sennacherib king of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Darius of Persia, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Napoleon, Clive of India, Bismarck, the Kaiser, Hitler, Stalin. The story and scene is always the same. They claim to deliver the people from bondage and to establish justice, freedom and peace. They come in might, riding in splendour, dragging prisoners.”
Source: John Myer: A Collection of his Sermons and Writing, #1
“History has shown more than once that when people surrender totalitarian powers to their rulers, they are inevitably exercised in the next big crisis. And let's not forget here that the next president who wields this power and who will be in charge of military might well be Hillary Clinton.”
“History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.”
“History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.”
“History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.”
“History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.”
“History has shown that even the mightiest of manipulators can be brought to their knees by the power of a united and resolute citizenry.”
Source: What is Wrong with Society Today
“History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong.”
“History has shown that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, in fact, dramatically change the balance of the court in many critical areas, such as abortion, the privacy debate expansion and child pornography.”
“History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.”
“History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition, target only victims they believe they can overpower. When the intended victim draws a gun, the predator realizes that their erstwhile target has the ability to kill them instantly. This tends to modify their behavior immediately without a shot being fired.”
“History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.”
Source: Collected fiction
“History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.”
“History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations. Once set in regulatory concrete, reconsideration of the basic underlying assumptions is very difficult. While it will be an uphill fight to re-examine the basic underlying assumptions of any law or administrative rule, it is clearly not impossible. It will just take longer than if not so well institutionalized.”
“History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.”
“History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.”
“History has shown us that breakthroughs often occur at the edges and include radical paradigm shifts.”
Source: Primer for Alien Contact
“History has shown us that it's not religion that's the problem, but any system of thought that insists that one group of people are inviolably in the right, whereas the others are in the wrong and must somehow be punished.”
“History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.”
“History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.”
“History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.”
“History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.”
“History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
Source: 1984
“History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.”
“History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.”
“History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did.”