Famous Quotes About history

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.