The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history. – Ralph Nader
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced. – Henry Louis Gates
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. – Henry Louis Gates
America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. – Henry Louis Gates
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. – Henry Louis Gates
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. – Stefan Zweig
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. – Dag Hammarskjold
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. – Dag Hammarskjold
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. – Hannah Arendt
History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it. – Rick Warren
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. – Coretta Scott King
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? – Charles de Gaulle
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. – Ray Manzarek
I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era. – Annie Lennox
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. – John Maynard Keynes
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies. – John Podhoretz
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent. – John Podhoretz
