Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?
I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
