Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.
If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it’s not a new thing at all – the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring.
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It’s something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.
We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.
We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
