#history

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#balance #decisively #favour #great #great responsibility

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#art #art forms #art history #cinema #culmination

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#before #enough #fascists #greatest #history

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#apart #class #culture #ethnic #fact

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

I think the materialist conception of history is valid. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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