We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting a film made, which is great.
One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
