History sociology economics psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

If I were beginning my career today I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television and I think if I were beginning today I'd be there.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there so you get glimpses of a non-human world and that is a transporting thing.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do so they can be ready to follow.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

In the old days... it was a basic cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

I'm inspired by history different periods.

The truth is of course that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

Over the objections where they sound like squealing pigs over the objections of Romney and all his allies we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

Texas was such a welcoming place and with its unbelievable history and tradition it's extra special to be a part of that.

When you think of how history is revealed we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history you have to move forward.

I normally ignore the History Channel.

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues he's extraordinarily wealthy and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

If history is a guide a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.