#history

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#come #democratic #democratically #differences #discuss

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#came #evil #genocide #history #how

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#classified #considered #considering #history #quite

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#eighteenth #eighteenth century #history #however #into

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#end #end product #every #generation #history

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#history #network #president #shaving #situation

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#attach #go #i #i remember #importance

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#history #individual #terrible #try #violation

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#broke #english #fine #fingers #get

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#apart #art #best #born #british