Quotes about History
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
— Oscar Wilde
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
— Virginia Woolf
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
— Hilaire Belloc
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.
— Jimmy Carter
Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.
— Billy Graham
History proves that the white man is a devil.
— Malcolm X
Can't repeat the past? why of course you can!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The world's religions have certain traits in common, but until the gospel of Jesus Christ burst upon the Mediterranean world, no one in the history of human imagination had conceived of such a thing as the worship of a crucified man.
— Fleming Rutledge
Reflect the new way of seeing: the human situation is so tragic that there is no answer from within history. The Christ event is therefore the invasion of this world by Another, who is retaking for himself the world he created.
— Fleming Rutledge
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
— Alice Walker