3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
3 December 2020 Kofi Annan Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don’t love themselves enough.
3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
3 December 2020 Thomas Mann What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
3 December 2020 Julien Benda And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
3 December 2020 Barbara Ehrenreich Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
3 December 2020 Carter G. Woodson If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
3 December 2020 Rebecca West It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.
3 December 2020 Stefan Zweig In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
3 December 2020 Eric Liu Throughout this country’s history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.
3 December 2020 Ralph Abernathy Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
3 December 2020 Louis D. Brandeis Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
3 December 2020 Rahm Emanuel I don’t want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn’t pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
3 December 2020 Will Durant Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Engels All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
3 December 2020 Andrea Jung I feel like I’m part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, ‘I’ve got to do a better job.’
3 December 2020 Wendell Phillips Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
3 December 2020 Dean Kamen If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
3 December 2020 Karl Jaspers The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man’s being, unfolding itself in thought.
