H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; ...if you approached the past generously, so to speak—its people as humans, not facts, as modern in their time as we were in ours, who thought and felt as we do, the dead would live again, our equals, not our old-fashioned, hopelessly unenlightened, and backward inferiors. Humanity, to be fully known, had to be seen as changeless as well as ever changing.”
Source: Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
“History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase”
Source: Music for Wartime
“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”
Source: Odysseus Abroad
“History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?”
Source: Archangel
“History wasn’t written up there. It was written here.”
Source: ASH PROTOCOL: A Neurocrime Thriller
“History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
“History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“History will always have the final laugh whenever we try to apply the concept of equality to any generation.”
“History will be erased in the universal purgatory.”
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“History will bear me out when I say that it is a misnomer to talk of Muslim rule when describing the political order in India prior to the advent of the British.”
Source: An Indian Pilgrim
“History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.”
“History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.”
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
“History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad peopleBut the appalling silence and indifference of the good.Our generation will have to repent notOnly for the words and actions of the children of darknessBut also for the fears and apathy of thechildren of light.”
“History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.”
“History will judge societies and governments - and their institutions - not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.”
“History will judge them!' says the country with thousands of statues and memorials to Confederates
(1/7/2021 on Twitter)”
“History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.”
“History will look back, and I'm fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility.”
“History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.”
“History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time. History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.”
“History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these.”
“History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.”
“History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.”
“History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.”
“History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.”
“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.”
Source: Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
“History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.”
“History will remember President Trump for having the ‘Twitter Trots’.”
“History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.”
“History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.”
“History will remember this war on Palestinian civilians and their displacement as the moment the world woke up to the Zionist plans of occupation and expansion.”
“History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.”
“History will see this as the residential commodification era, in which housing provision seemed to lose all contact between supply and demand of housing as a utility and simply focused on supply and demand of investment — and that is worrying.
Investment is good for the economy, but the investment you want is investment that goes into creating homes, workplaces and infrastructure, not investing in owning them and inflating asset prices.”
“History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.”
“History will tell the story, America will always stand.”
“History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.”
“History will treat me right.”
“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honour.”
“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.”
Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words
“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.”
Source: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill
“History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.”
Source: Christian thought, its history and application
“History without politics descends to mere Literature.”
“History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being left out which most marks the spirit and life of the person. My own thesis is complementary: science taught ... without a sense of history is robbed of those very qualities that make it worth teaching to the student of the humanities and the social sciences.”
“History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.”
“History works itself out in the living.”
“History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.”