3 December 2020 Robert Anton Wilson Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
3 December 2020 Thomas Friedman It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
3 December 2020 Dick Gregory We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
3 December 2020 Herbert Hoover No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
3 December 2020 George McGovern The Establishment center… has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster – a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
3 December 2020 John le Carre History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
3 December 2020 George Santayana History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
3 December 2020 David Soul My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
3 December 2020 Stephen Ambrose Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
3 December 2020 Ron Fournier Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington’s reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
3 December 2020 Spike Lee Violence is a part of America. I don’t want to single out rap music. Let’s be honest. America’s the most violent country in the history of the world, that’s just the way it is. We’re all affected by it.
3 December 2020 Babatunde Olatunji Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.
3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
3 December 2020 Thomas Friedman Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
3 December 2020 John McCarthy In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
3 December 2020 Alphonse de Lamartine Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
3 December 2020 Francois Mitterrand France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
3 December 2020 George S. Patton Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
