Quotes about History
We've got to move from membership to discipleship to being full-time Christians, not part-time saints. That means operating comprehensively on the value system of Heaven as we move about in history.
- Tony Evans
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
- Victor Hugo
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
- Yulia Tymoshenko
There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.
- Donald Trump
Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.
- George H. W. Bush
We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
- Wendell Berry
People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.
- Desmond Tutu
We can still hear the voices that echo through history. Their message is as true today as ever. The people of Poland, the people of America, and the people of Europe still cry out "We want God."
- Donald Trump
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
- Pope John Paul II