#history

Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#any #because #doing #earn #fashion

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#civilization #everybody #government #history #human

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

— Malcom X

#history #lower #lower animals #man #memory

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#been #between #drama #enough #great

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#auto #auto industry #because #detroit #economist

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#force #history #making #motive #people

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#despise #enemy #him #seriously #strategically

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#classes #eliminated #history #others #some

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#committed #europe #head #history #horrors

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden