#history

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#abundance #add #enough #little #more

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. ↗

— Jules Romains

#category #history #human #phenomena #tends

Whatever our official pieties, deep down we all believe in lives. The sternest formalists are the loudest gossips, and if you ask a cultural-studies maven who believes in nothing but collective forces and class determinisms how she came to believe in this doctrine, she will begin to tell you, eagerly, the story of her life. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#history #life

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#brain #day #forward #history #hope

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#art #better #change #everything #history

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. ↗

— Barack Obama

#because #beginning #belief #born #chapter

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#able #always #because #comfortable #comfortable life

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#history #made #many #much #sacrificing

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history. ↗

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

#border #bound #common #culture #history

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#asian countries #been #countries #had #history