Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. —Napoleon Bonaparte More about this quote Tags: history obscurity glory infamy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. —Paul Harvey More about this quote Tags: history memory perception change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. —Douglas Adams More about this quote Tags: history humor universe anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History is more or less bunk. —Henry Ford More about this quote Tags: history falsehood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: history feminism women anonymity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. —Thomas Sowell More about this quote Tags: history West Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. —Gertrude Stein More about this quote Tags: history repetition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only real struggle in the history of the world … is between the vested interest and social justice. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: justice politics history power struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. … Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. … It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: honesty history disappointment progress failure work laws illusions delusions resilience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. —George Ade More about this quote Tags: history writing rejection posterity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. —Margot Asquith More about this quote Tags: history discovery America irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: truth love history time inevitability tyranny murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Romania had been under communist rule since 1945, but it was after Ceausescu came to power in 1965 that life really began to deteriorate. . . . Then, one night in the late 1980s, a group of men dressed as street sweepers draped the statue of Lenin in Bucharest with big truck tires and set them on fire. It was a bold and daring act in a country where, it was said, for every Romanian on the street there were two secret police officers. The next morning traffic was detoured while workers from nearby factories were brought in to clean the statue with razor blades. That day I realized that change was possible. —Florin Ion Firimita More about this quote Tags: history power change communism daring Romania Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was thanks to women like Eppie that this moment in history could exist — a moment when a woman could be a serious contender for the presidency of the United States. In the 1970s Eppie had defied her husband by helping to found a Planned Parenthood branch in her town. She'd started a women's empowerment group before most of us even knew what empowerment meant. —Mally Z. Ray More about this quote Tags: politics history power feminism women empowerment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no reason to repeat bad history. —Eleanor Holmes Norton More about this quote Tags: history bad reason repetition memort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email