H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.”
“History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.”
“History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.”
“History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.”
“History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.”
“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
“History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.”
Source: No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State
“History shows that there are no invincible armies.”
“History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.”
“History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.”
Source: Selected works of Mao Tse-Tung
“History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.”
“History shows that when any state intends to make war against another state, even not adjacent, it begins to seek for frontiers across which it can reach the frontiers of the state it wants to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds such frontiers.”
“History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.”
“History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.”
Source: There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error
“History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.”
“History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.”
“History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.”
“History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?”
“History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!”
“History shows us that reversing a decline is very difficult because it requires undoing so many things that have already been done. For example, if one's spending is greater than one's earnings and one's liabilities are greater than one's assets, those circumstances can only be reversed by working harder or consuming less. The question is whether we can face our challenges honestly and adapt and change to meet them.”
Source: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.”
Source: Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More
“History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.”
“History shows you don't know what the future brings.”
“History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.”
“History started badly and has been getting steadily worse.”
“History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.”
“History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.”
“History suggests that even in a full democracy, the risk that the 5,000 will dominate is much greater than the threat that the 5,000,000 will expropriate the 5,000.”
Source: The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today
“History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.”
“History takes time. History makes memory.”
“History teacher Bob Alston's "expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to generate a roadmap to guide his new learning. He was an expert at cultivating puzzlement it was Alston's ability to stand back from first impressions, to question his quick leaps of mind, to keep track of his questions that together pointed him in the direction of new learning.”
“History teaches everything, even the future.”
Source: History of the French Revolution of 1848
“History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”
“History teaches that nations do not learn from history.”
“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.”
“History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.”
“History teaches us about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going.
I have always thought of history as a prophylactic against extreme social disorders. If we are aware of the conditions in which such disorders arise, and the way people respond to them, we can better avoid falling victim to their influences. We can better remain true to our moral decency, and to our ideals of liberty and justice. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.”
“History teaches us hope.”
“History teaches us how to go forwards in the right way.”
“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.”
Source: Voyages of Malolo: "The Secret of the Rongo"
“History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.”
Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II: August 1919-August 1920
“History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps by only the most vocal men; it does not teach us whether the change was sound or whether the rejected view deserved to be rejected. Only an impartial analysis of the view in question, an analysis that is not dazzled by the victory or stunned by the defeat of the adherents of the view concerned - could teach us anything regarding the worth of the view and hence regarding the meaning of the historical change.”
“History teaches us that Literary Book Awards have always been the quickest and easiest way to achieve global fame. They have helped countless authors to shoot to stardom. But this fame usually fades away after their death, unlike William Shakespeare, Jane Austen or Charles Dickens who never won any awards, yet they continue to be read, quoted and remembered as the greatest writers of all time.”
“History teaches us that man learns nothing from history”
“History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going on vacation or the team at Odeon trying a little side project that allowed people to communicate in real time as long as their message was 140 characters or less (which ultimately of course became Twitter), the unintended is often the transformational.”