Sometimes - history needs a push.
Vladimir LeninTags: history
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
Barack ObamaTags: history africa colonialism
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover ClevelandTags: women history voting presidents american-history women-s-sufferage
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H.L. MenckenTags: history
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl SaganTags: power history society capitalism oppression corruption government rationalization aristocracy
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard ShawThere once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
Richard LedererTags: history christianity religion medieval scepticism middle-ages dark-age
History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
Ambrose BierceTags: history
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
Albert EinsteinTags: politics freedom history philosophy democracy hope individualism revolution communism socialism
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