H Quotes
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“History is full of women who thought they could bargain their way out of oppression by throwing other women under the bus. Women who believe that if only they joined in with the persecution of feminists, lesbians, women in prison and domestic violence shelters, they would be immune from attack. Believe this at your peril.”
Source: Born in the Right Body: Gender Identity Ideology From a Medical and Feminist Perspective
“History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of this crime of child murder, abortion, infanticide, lies at the door of the male sex.”
“History is getting ready to repeat itself,” she whispered.”
Source: Storytime
“History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.”
“History is hallmark of humanity.”
“History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.”
Source: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.”
“History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.”
“History is His story.”
“History is history and thank God for that.”
Source: Vortex of Indian Fevers
“History is history. What is done is done.”
“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.”
Source: JULIAN
“History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.”
“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.”
Source: Bloodlines
“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisionsabout the future.”
Source: Bloodlines
“History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”
“History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.”
“History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.”
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”
“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.”
“History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.”
“History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.”
“History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“History is just like psychology.”
“History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.”
“History is just new people making old mistakes.”
“History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.”
Source: Blood Bond
“History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.”
“History is known for sugar-coating. Sometimes it's the only thing that can make it palatable. So it can come as no surprise that even on Mallow Island, South Carolina, the past is not as sweet as the name suggests.”
Source: Other Birds: A Novel
“History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use.”
“History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.”
“History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.”
“History is like a constantly changing tree.”
“History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.”
“History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.”
“history is like steak and potatoes, you can order it everywhere and it always tastes the same.”
Source: Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales
“History is littered with dead good men”
“History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.”
“History is littered with great firms that got killed by disruption. Of course, the personal computer, a technology that first took root as a toy, got Digital Equipment Corporation. Kodak missed the boat for a long time on digital imaging. Sony was slow to get MP3 technology. Microsoft doesn't know what to do with open source software. And so on.”
“History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.”
“History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.”
Source: Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life
“History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.”
“History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.”
“History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.”
“History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.”
“History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.”
Source: David Wojnarowicz: brush fires in the social landscape
“History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.”
Source: The Searching Wind: A Play in Two Acts
“History is made by people in power making decisions, and their notes and writings reveal the decision-making process.”
Source: The Lions of Fifth Avenue