Best history & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all know, not just for the history of the United States and the survival indeed of our democracy, but for the future peace of the world. And never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.”

Knows World Needs States Moments God Seems Time Spirituality United History United States Democracy Future Survival Commitment Crisis Severe Interfaith

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.”

Men Needs Heart Ideas Enough Helping History Sanctity

Book:The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections

Source: The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections

“By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.”

Needs Feels Hands History Stupid Danger Humour Planets Europe Dues Graves Cute Royal Extinction Royal Family Inbreds Koalas

Author:Nancy Banks-Smith

“And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.”

Needs Mind Art Philosophy Seems History Comfort Wavelength

Book:The Turtle Diary

Source: The Turtle Diary

“It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.”

Needs Persons Art Philosophy Today Past Nations Deals History Resources Seven These Days Sage Greece Single Person Times Past

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.”

Needs Wells Facts History Events Perspective Distance Cease

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“It is undeniable that others and the larger world, so beleaguered at this moment in history, need everything that we have to give. But what to give is the problem. It seems finally clear that we cannot find out what to do simply by thinking about it. We need to gain our inspiration and our direction from much deeper sources.”

Thinking World Needs Giving Moments Problem Inspiration Seems History Clear Source Gains Deeper

Book:Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body

Source: Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body

“As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when I want to reply: "Sir, I would not trust you to write a ransom note."”

Want Needs Writing Stories History Fit Notes Editors Ransom

Author:Richard Conniff

“We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed the most worthy of the heavenly present. The names of Seneca, of the elder and the younger Pliny, of Tacitus, of Plutarch, of Galen, of the slave Epictetus, and of the emperor Marcus Antoninus, adorn the age in which they flourished, and exalt the dignity of human natures.”

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including

“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”

Source: Occasions and protests

“If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.”

“Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.”

“[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.”

“No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Important Reality History Constitution Protection Amendments Free Speech First Amendment Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Larry Flynt

“Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.”

“Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.”

Needs Should History Progress Brake

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”

Needs Real Social Interest Imagination History Influence Materials Conscious Crowds Fabric My Imagination Compulsion Social Life Indirect

Book:Selected Essays: 1934-1943

Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.”

Needs Truth Wish Teach History Senses Abstract Seducing

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.”

Source: Negro Makers of History

“We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”

Ifs Needs Whole Fall History Study Fall Back Entirety

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.”

Needs Causes History Argument Chosen

Author:Romain Rolland

“History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.”

Men Needs History Teacher He Man Models Comforter

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”

Needs Feels Humans Human Beings Kindness History Atheism Positive Atheism Memorable Agnostic Kindness And Compassion Earth And Nature Goodness And Kindness Kindness To Others Human Kindness

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.”

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.”

Knows Needs Should Trying Mind Heart Past Asks Answers History Pockets Open Mind Open Heart Constrain

Book:Faith of Our Fathers

Source: Faith of Our Fathers

“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”

Needs Humor Funny Girl History Comedy Directors Comedian Filmmaker Parks Filmmaking Policemen Pretty Girl Film Directors Movie Director Wicked World

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply. Of all intellectual pursuits, history is the most supremely useful. That is why people crave it and need ever more of it.”

People Needs Giving America Asks History Intellectual Europe British Pursuit Infant Crave Isle

Author:Simon Jenkins

“The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.”

“As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.”

Needs Romance History

Author:Walt Whitman

“Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.”

Ifs Needs Pain Wish Women Natural Prayer History Trouble Blessing Conscious Adversity Instinct Welcome Desperate Desperation Natural Instinct

Book:The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings

Source: The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.”

Needs History Written Historian Writing History

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.”

World Needs Whole History Sacrifice Blood Victory Murder Jew Whole World Holocaust Nazism Nazi Germany

Author:Julius Streicher

“Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.”

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