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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They did not eat lunch.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

I think you can learn from history.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

That is history. I say history because it happened in the past.

China has all the advantages in the world. But it Does not have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.

Strip malls are history.

Between France and Senegal there is a history. There is a language that we both speak. There is a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

The 80s were fabulous. The 90s sucked, and the 70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There is something that is just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and I am a loner.

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I am optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.