The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.
One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.
Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.
History is not history unless it is the truth.
God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.
We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.
A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.
The scum of the earth. . . but what fine soldiers we have made them.
I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.
The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be oppressed.
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Live in the moment. Moments make history.
I know some African-Americans, they happen to be conservative, they're successful. They, of course, have raised their kids, and kids can't escape in school the history of slavery and all of the horrible things that happened in the past. But they weren't raised that way, and they are not raising their kids to be imprisoned by that. They're raising them to be the best they can be today, to take advantage of the opportunity that exists today.