H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History is on the side of the regulators.”
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
“History is one damn thing after another.”
“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process”
“History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.”
“History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.”
Source: Assassination Vacation
“History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.”
Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others”
Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“History is only gossip.”
“History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.”
“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.”
“History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.”
“History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains”
Source: World History
“History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!”
Source: Back where we belong: selected speeches
“History is past politics, and politics is present history.”
“History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.”
“History is Philosophy teaching by example.”
Source: Thucydidis I-II: With collation of the two Cambridge mss. and the Aldine and Juntine editions. By Richard Shilleto
“History is philosophy teaching by experience.”
“History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick”
“History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.”
“History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.”
“History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.”
Source: Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
“History is propelled by good governance paradigms that balance the ever-present tension between three human nature attributes (emotionality, amorality and egoism), and nine human dignity needs (reason, security, human rights, accountability, transparency, justice, opportunity, innovation and inclusiveness).”
“History is rarely made by reasonable men.”
Source: Blood Of The Fold
“History is really a study of the future, not the past.”
“History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.”
“History is repeating. But it doesn’t have to go the same way as last time. While learning from the past and changing shape… history will keep on going – toward the hope of tomorrow.”
Source: Star Wars Rebels, Vol. 3
“History is repeating itself in Florida.”
“History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.”
“History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.”
Source: Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy
“History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.”
“History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.”
“History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy?”
“History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.”
“History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.”
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.”
“History is rich knowledge. In your travel, learn brief history of the place visited.”
“History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .”
“History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.”
“History is rooted in the future”
“History is running very fast in my country.”
Source: Performance Anomalies
“History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.”
“History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.”
“History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.”
“History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.”
“History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.”
Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic
“History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today, thinking about the passing of Julian Bond and a wonderful conversation with a woman who has influenced so much, I think we all are history makers. All of our names will not be as known as Mr. Bond's or in books, but our names will be on someone's tongue and our memories will be in someone's heart, and we will all be a part of someone's personal story. We have a unique opportunity at this very second to change how we affect someone's life as living history and historians. Flaws and all. Yep.”
“History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.”