#history

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#history #i #like #loved #me

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#intentions #justify #politicians #their #tool

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#becomes #craziness #gossip #history #kind

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#biography #book #circumstances #events #every

I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#although #being #believed #change #come

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#apostles #beings #claimed #explanation #havoc

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easy #escapes #fuss #history #quiet

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#been #difficulty #examining #history #how

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#committing #confront #crisis #diminished #economic

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#american idea #any #designed #done #economic