Without the teaching of history and civics in schools, how then do we value what we have?
History Quotes
Carlyle leads by count, with Yuval Noah Harari, Will Durant and Isaac Asimov close behind. The sourced picks include Karl Popper’s claim in The Open Society (1945) that there is no history of mankind, only many histories of aspects of human life, and Oscar Wilde’s line from 1891 that anybody can make history but only a great man can write it.
The Churchill line “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it” is flagged as misattributed. What the notes give is his House of Commons speech of 23 January 1948, in which he proposed to leave the past to history, especially as he intended to write that history. A line on Anglo-Irish history credited to Shaw is flagged too, and the notes record the more common, punchier version of it.
We want to create our own history and we are going to do that on Sunday.
The whole history of religion is a history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.
My sense of history in music is much greater than a lot of people's.
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African cinema quotes itself. This is a sign that it now has a history.