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The audiences are really great. I really love it over there. I love Europe, period. Oh my God, all the architecture and all the history and just to the way people think and live is so different.

Quotes by Beth Hart

Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

Quotes by Bernie Sanders

General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.

Quotes by Bernie Sanders

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.

Quotes by Bernie Sanders

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Quotes by Bertrand Piccard

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Quotes by Bertrand Russell

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

Quotes by Bernard Williams

The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed...

Quotes by Bernard Williams

Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their place in the society that produced it.

Quotes by Bernard Williams

Of course Cristiano - what he has done over the last 15 years in football - is probably one of the best players ever in the history of football, so no comparison to him.

Quotes by Bernardo Silva

What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.

Quotes by Bernhard Schlink

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

Quotes by Bernhard von Bulow

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us...

Quotes by Bernhard von Bulow

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of...

Quotes by Bernice Johnson Reagon

Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.

Quotes by Bernard Hopkins

Throughout our history, our fight for survival and freedom has been empowered by a secret weapon: Our unity.

Quotes by Benny Gantz

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

Quotes by Bernadine Dohrn

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

Quotes by Bernadine Dohrn

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Quotes by Bernard Baruch

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of "History" quotes are on this page?
A varied set - early scientific curiosity encouraged by visits to a museum of natural history, a personal history steeped in church and religious family members, a reflection on black television history, and a contrast between comfortably critiquing from the sidelines and the people who actually make a difference.
Is there a quote about family and religious history?
Yes, one quote describes an extended family full of preachers, evangelists, and former priests, giving the speaker "quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality." For more on lasting family ties, see the Love page.
Is there a quote about television history?
Yes, one quote uses 'The Cosby Show' as a personal benchmark when thinking about black television and history. For more reflections on culture and everyday life, see the Life page.
Is there a quote about scientific curiosity?
Yes, one quote recalls being interested in science from early on, with a father who would take the speaker to the museum of natural history, giving them a head start on scientific knowledge. Browse the Long page for more on things that shape us over time.
Is there a quote about making a difference versus criticizing from the sidelines?
Yes, one quote draws a contrast between the comfort of sitting on the sidelines and critiquing "the builders from afar," and the people who actually go out and make a difference. For more on ambition and legacy, check out the Great page.

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