Quotes:History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
View quotes by Martin Luther King JrWhen great changes occur in
history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right. (Speech at his trial for sedition in Cleveland 1918)
View quotes by Eugene Victor DebsBefore the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of
history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.
View quotes by Martin Luther King JrHistory teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
View quotes by Hubert H HumphreyThe happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no
history.
View quotes by George EliotUnless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the
history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
View quotes by Margaret ThatcherIf we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what
history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
View quotes by Hans BetheAnyone who knows anything of
history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
View quotes by Karl MarxScience is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the
history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.
View quotes by Michael CrichtonAll the lessons of
history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
View quotes by Charles A BeardToday, for the first time in
history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
View quotes by Pope John Paul IISometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let
history answer this question.
View quotes by Thomas JeffersonWe are living in the machine age. For the first time in
history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
View quotes by Fred AllenOnce a President gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is
history. [Don't all Presidents get to go to the White House?]
View quotes by Doris GoodwinWe are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human
history, the stage of rule by brute force.
View quotes by Ayn RandI am about to write a very curious
history, as the reader will agree with me when he has read this book. We have more than one narrative of people being cast away upon desolate islands, and being left to their own resources, and no works are perhaps read with more interest; but I believe I am the first instance of a boy being left alone upon an uninhabited island. Such was, however, the case; and now I shall tell my own story
View quotes by Frederick MarryatI didn't know it was the home of golf. I thought the home of golf was where I was from [not knowing the
history of golf when at St Andrews]
View quotes by Boo WeekleyIf there ever was in the
history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
View quotes by Fidel CastroOn his own
history with mathematics, and connection with John Nash:
'I had a bit of a hiccup in the third year of high school. The school I was at hired a non-English speaking Hungarian who was a professional of some great standing in Eastern Europe. But he hadn't learned the English language yet. He probably is a great asset to the teaching staff now, but we were his first class. That was when mathematics and I parted ways.
'There's a lot of mathematics in music. It's all in groups of eight, mate, y'know. The one thing that I may have in common with John is that the subject matter I do know, the driving part of my life, my work life, there's a point where structure and scaffolding is left behind and intuition takes over. That's the difference between John and the next 100 mathematicians. He's fully prepared to leave the scaffolding behind and get into the ether of the equation and find the answer quicker. The bane of his existence, however, is finding the proof.'
View quotes by Russell Crowe
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