People Quotes

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

~ James A. Baldwin

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

~ Fidel Castro

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

~ Prince Charles

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

~ Benito Mussolini

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

~ Steven Biko

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

~ Hugh Evans

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

~ William Morris

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

~ Ma Jian

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

~ Jack Canfield

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

~ Milton Friedman

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

~ Mao Zedong

History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.

~ Tariq Ramadan

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

~ Elie Wiesel

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

~ Malcolm X

The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.

~ Myles Munroe

The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.

~ Pauline Neville-Jones

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.

~ José Rizal

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

~ Bill Gates

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

~ George Santayana

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

~ Madeleine Albright

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

~ Luis Gutierrez

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

~ William Jennings Bryan

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

~ Fatos Nano

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

~ George F. Kennan

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

~ Golda Meir

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

~ Alan Watts

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

~ Edward Bond

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

~ Chinua Achebe

Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.

~ Karyn Parsons

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

~ David Attenborough

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

~ Aleister Crowley

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

~ Dan Quayle

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

~ Tommy Lee Jones

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

~ Warren Buffett

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

~ Jo Bonner

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

~ Gary Ross

If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don't burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don't sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet.

~ Greg Graffin

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

~ Benito Mussolini

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

~ Marc Newson