710 Quotes About Historical

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and Newton do not occur yet their cosmic quest destroyed the medieval vision of an immutable social order in a walled-in universe and transformed the European landscape, society, culture, habits and general outlook, as thoroughly as if a new species had arisen on this planet.

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.

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Who controls money controls the world.

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.