#history

The history of the world is the world's court of justice. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#history #justice #the history of #world

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#history #purpose #vocation #age

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#era #game #going #great #history

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#history #i #languages #nation #native

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history. ↗

— Albert Reynolds

#becomes #before #beginning #both #call

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism. ↗

— K. Lee Lerner

#history #journalism #media #politics #science

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#history #i #last #learned #make

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality. ↗

— Elle Thornton

#historic-fiction #military-history #north-carolina #race-relations #young-adult-fiction

Study the past if you would define the future. ↗

— Confucius

#future #history #learning #moving-forward #past

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#hitler #i #make #nice #read