H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History has this way of not getting the joke.”
“History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.”
“History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.”
“History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won't lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.”
“History has to live with what was here,
clutching and close to fumbling all we had -
it is so dull and gruesome how we die,
unlike writing, life never finishes.”
Source: New Selected Poems
“History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.”
Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.”
Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender
“History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.”
Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
“History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.”
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
“History held plenty more examples of the unmarried being happy. Who said a man or a woman had to be a husband or a wife? Maybe they could simply be, unto themselves.”
Source: Marilla of Green Gables
“History helps us to create co-relation with event or action. It clarifies how things are related to each other. Ample knowledge of history let people to know about attitudes and feelings as resulting from an action.History is not merely a summation of previous events, but instead its purpose is to show reasons for why and how these events happened and give perspective to pain, breakthroughs, war, associated with them. It tells that how explorers reached out and started sharing culture.By making us more cognizant of how we got to this point, it teaches us how to continue to approach things in manners that work and refrain from committing a mistake repeatedly. History should help us learn lessons from our forefathers and Mothers past mistakes and their achievements along with what they created.”
“History here is always a comedy, and not a tragedy: the tragic is before or after, and in any case outside of, temporal life; this life itself realizes a program fixed beforehand and therefore, taken in itself, has neither any meaning nor any value.”
Source: Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit
“History holds its own court and delivers its own judgements,' he said. 'I doubt that I'll be concerned when my judgement's handed down.”
Source: Children of Dune
“History, huh?”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life”
“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.”
Source: Eterlimus
“History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.”
Source: What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961
“History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.”
Source: The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history
“History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.”
Source: Reading Hegel: The Introductions
“History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.”
Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American
“HISTORY IN MOTION AND HISTORY IN THE MAKING - RECLAIMING OUR GLORY - OUR PLACE UNDER THE SUN
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“History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got through withits twenty-fifth revolution before reading much about it. When it is over, some one whose business it is, will be sure to give you in a digested form all that it concerns you to know, and save you trouble, confusion, and time. If you will follow this plan, you will be surprised to find how new and fresh your interest in what you read will become.”
“History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.”
“History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.”
“History is a bath of blood.”
Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“History is a better guide than good intentions.”
“History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.”
“History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.”
“History is a bucket of ashes.”
“History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.”
“History is a chaotic system. The details can shift endlessly, but the overall shape remains constant. Make a small change in the past, and it changes enough details in the present that we would not have come together at exactly this place and time to watch exactly this scene. And yet the great movements of history would be largely unchanged.”
Source: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.”
“History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.”
“History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.”
“History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there were police officers - there were these groups of men who would wander the countryside - and if they saw a black man or a black woman they would presume that that black man or woman was a slave. If you didn't have the kind of pass that you were supposed to have, then you could be whipped, you could be enslaved, you could be taken into custody - even if you were free. And as I'm reading this I find myself thinking, "How is this any different from stop-and-frisk?"”
“History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.”
Source: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
“History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.”
“History is a delicate matter in a diverse country. Shortly after the fall of the Alamo—likewise in 1836—Mexican troops defeated the Texans at the Battle of Coleto Creek near Goliad, Texas. The Texans surrendered, believing they would be treated as prisoners of war. Instead, the Mexicans marched the 300 or so survivors to Goliad and shot them in what became known as the Goliad Massacre. Mexicans resent the term “massacre.” With the city of Goliad now half Hispanic, they insist on “execution.” Many Anglos, said Benny Martinez of the Goliad chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), “still hate Mexicans and using ‘massacre’ is a subtle way for them to express it.”
Watertown, Massachusetts, had a different disagreement about history. In 2007, the town’s more than 8,000 Armenian-Americans were so angry at the Anti-Defamation League’s refusal to recognize the World War I Turkish massacres of Armenians as genocide that they persuaded the city council to cut ties with the ADL’s “No Place For Hate” program designed to fight discrimination. Other towns with a strong Armenian presence—Newton, Belmont, Somerville, and Arlington—were considering breaking with the ADL.
Filmmaker Ken Burns has learned that diversity complicates history. When he made a documentary on the Second World War, Latino groups complained it did not include enough Hispanics—even though none had seen it. Mr. Burns bristled at the idea of changing his film, but Hispanics put enough pressure on the Public Broadcasting Service to force him to.
Even prehistory is divisive. In 1996, two men walking along the Columbia River in Washington State discovered a skeleton that was found to be 9,200 years old. “Kennewick Man,” as the bones came to be called, was one of the oldest nearly complete human skeletons ever uncovered in North America and was of great interest to scientists because his features were more Caucasian than American Indian. Local Indians claimed he was an ancestor and insisted on reburying him. It took more than eight years of legal battles before scientists got full access to the remains.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.”
“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
“History is a game played backwards only.”
Source: Circles on the Water
“History is a ghost story.”
“History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.”
“History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.”
Source: The Use of History
“History is a great dust heap.”
“History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in her magnificence,--Jerusalem bleeding under the Roman, or Lisbon vanishing in flame and earthquake. History must be splendid. Bacon called it the pomp of business. Its march is in high places, and along the pinnacles and points of great affairs.”
“History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.”
“History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.”
“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”