#history

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#asia #being #coming #competition #enter

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#confirmed #history #liberate #only #oppressed

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. ↗

— Tacitus

#assured #best #done #evil #friends

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#born #developed #field #geniuses #grasses

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#crimes #follies #indeed #little #mankind

I'm a history dork and a sci-fi dork. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#history #i #sci-fi

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#dealt #history #kindly #low #periods

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#begun #bring #burning #darkness #go

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives. ↗

— Anita Borg

#economical #going #history #impact #lives

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#historical #history #i #i am #icon