Absolutely, I don’t believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, ‘Well-behaved women rarely make history.’
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The ‘situation’ is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
I chose commerce while at school, but didn’t get admission for B.Com in any college, based on my marks. Hence, I decided to pursue History Honours, which I eventually graduated in, from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College.
Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.
The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.
God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
You can’t erase history.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
I’m fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There’s something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
To try to expunge an individual’s history is a terrible violation.
