#history

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#author #composition #double #fact #hand

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

History is written by the victors. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#victors #written

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#away #bird #call #destroyed #gone

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?' ↗

— Daniel Craig

#bond #challenge #come #figure #history

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all. ↗

— Jack Dee

#admit #allergic #also #annoy #around

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

#history #misfortunes #only #register

History is Philosophy teaching by example. ↗

— Thucydides

#example #history #philosophy #teaching

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#american #american history #before #come #committee

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen