I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way th...
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.
That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
History proves that the white man is a devil.
Every country has a dark side of their history.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy.
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know wha...
The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
