H Quotes
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“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
“History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.”
“History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.”
Source: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
“History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.”
“History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.”
“History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.”
“History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.”
“history teaches us that wars are not fought with arms alone. In times of conflict and occupation, language can be a powerful weapon, where refusing the occupier’s words becomes an act of honor, dignity, and defiance. In this sense, every word spoken in a native language goes beyond the boundaries of the conventional concept of speech to become an instrument of boycott and resistance, a pursuit of self-expression, liberation, and survival, and a declaration of self-determination, freedom, and independence.”
“History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.”
Source: Twain: Wit and Wisecracks
“History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.”
“History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.”
“History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.”
“History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.”
“History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.”
Source: Jimmy Carter
“History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.”
“History tells Us It’s Possible".”
“History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.”
Source: Education and Ecstasy: With,
“History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?”
“History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.”
Source: The Storyteller
“History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.”
Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
“History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.”
“History tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass.”
“History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.”
“History tends to change people who think they're changing it.”
“History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.”
“History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.”
Source: The Evil We Love
“History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."”
“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth
to itself over and over again, and those whom it
appoints agents of change and progress
do not always accept their destinies willingly.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“History, Truman knew, is not a fairy tale. It is more often tragic than comic, full of broken hearts and broken promises, disappointed hopes and dreams delayed. But progress is possible. Hope is sustaining. Fear can be overcome.”
Source: The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
“History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.”
Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait
“History, unfortunately, has taught us that we get smarter, but we don't get brighter.”
“History, unlike faith, cannot be built upon foundations of sand.”
Source: In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
“History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.”
“History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.”
“History uses memory and its reconstructions of the past as a source, even an extraordinarily important source, but still just one source to be read and utilized in light of many others.”
Source: Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
“History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.”
Source: Hyperion
“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
“History warns us that silence is complicity.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.”
Source: Patriots
“History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.”
Source: Good as Gold
“History was an examination of the past, but there was no hope in the past, only sadness and despair. All she wanted to do was look ahead where the future was bright and blinding. And hers.”
Source: Ignite the Stars
“History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.”
“History was censored. The kitchen remembered.”
Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.”
Source: Eclipse
“History was everything, for it was in man's nature to make the same mistakes over and over.”
“History was, is, a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards, but you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.”
Source: How to Stop Time
“History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.”
Source: Red Mars
“History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.”
Source: Conqueror
“History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.”
“History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected knowledge, took faith from the solid and availing stuff of our experience. Even if we believe that history is a workwheel powered by human blood -- read the speeches of Mussolini -- at least we've known the thing together. A single narrative sweep, not ten thousand wisps of disinformation. (82)”
Source: Underworld: Picador Classic