Unlike any other leader in modern American history we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history people would gather around whether by the fire or at a tavern and tell stories. One person would chime in then another maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

History is a people's memory and without a memory man is demoted to the lower animals.

After all when the world looks to America they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high idealistic motives and idealism in our time has been shoved aside and we are paying the penalty for it.

Black history is American history.

Throughout human history the apostles of purity those who have claimed to possess a total explanation have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Yeah I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history too.

Our culture now wonderfully alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Throughout human history the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

So I'm OK with myself with history my work who I am and who I was.

History does not merely touch on language but takes place in it.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for so much history yet to be made.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.