Quotes on Historical

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.