The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.
Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.
Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.
