Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not. "

John Gregory Dunne

Related Quotes:

" It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. "

Henry David Thoreau

" As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty. "

" Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "

George Santayana

" I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. "

" In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history. "

" Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. "

Carter G. Woodson

" Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. "

" I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn. "

" The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. "

" Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. "

" We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. "

" History shows that there are no invincible armies. "

" Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world. "

" The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. "

Helena Blavatsky

" The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier. "

" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "

" My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. "

John Henrik Clarke

" I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. "

Queen Elizabeth II

" There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. "

" Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. "

" You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. "

" When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans. "

" It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. "

" Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. "

" There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. "

" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "

" The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. "

Edwin Powell Hubble

" In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. "