3624 History Quotes for You to Enjoy

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. Hugh Evans

History People Simple Whatever Action Think Complacency Everyday Our Strikes Montgomery Scale Wearing Rely Songs Force Protest Boycott Flags Movements Bus Shows Designed Disrupt Symbolic Symbols

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. Jawaharlal Nehru

History Soul Age Old Long Suppressed Nation Out Finds Rarely Step New Ends Which Moment Utterance

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. John F. Kennedy

Best History Generation World Power Make The History Of Mankind Last

I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you. Jon Katz

Love Time History You People Joy Animals Glorious Think Our Our Lives Enter Spirits About More Particular Come Come And Go Leave Go Love You Loving Connection Whole Creature Lives Letting

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed. Mark McKinnon

War History You Wins Consumers No-One Until Another Trade Always Got Proven Repeatedly Begets Tariff Get Screwed Then Ever

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. Mickey Spillane

History Down Out Names Smoke Coming Authors Want Chimney Keep

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. Milton Friedman

Freedom History Capitalism Political Clearly Condition Political Freedom Sufficient Necessary

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. Moliere

Great History Political Books Dancing Great Leaders Misfortunes Arisen Leaders Merely Failures Tragic History Books Lack Blunders Mankind Skill Fill Ills

The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. Myles Munroe

History People World Old King Long Live We Cannot John Impact Impacted John F. Kennedy Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Erase Were Effectively Cannot Them Old People Who Lived Kennedy Luther

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. Napoleon Bonaparte

History Virtue Philosophy Well Skepticism

History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence. Pramila Jayapal

Silence History Harshly Moral Complicity Judged Always Times Consequence

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day. Richard Jefferies

Day History Matter Will Evil Men Own Our Despot Tyrant Sight Bitterest Rushed Saddest Most Execute Read Ready How However His Hands Serve Eagerly

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning. Richard Lederer

Good History Language Way Latin Critical Critical Mass Vocabulary More Caesar Mass Most Because Makes Julius Julius Caesar Than Certain English English Language Universal Universal Language

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. Richard M. Nixon

History Honor Bestow Greatest Peacemaker

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. Stephen Hawking

History Science Events Reflect Has-Been Arbitrary Inspired Divinely Underlying Been Gradual May Order Happen Which Realization Manner Certain Whole

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Steven Spielberg

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. Washington Irving

Life History Woman Life Is A Affections Whole

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant

Good History Clever Nothing Say Good Thing Always Often Lessons Thing

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