Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
History Quotes
AccuracyHistoryJournalismMedia Critique Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
CriticismGender RolesHistoryMoralityReligion We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
EqualityGender DiscriminationHistoryHuman RightsJustice The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
FaithHistoryInfluenceMusicSpirituality I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'
DeceptionFalse ProphetsHistoryWarnings The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.
GoodnessHistoryImpactLeadershipPolitics I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.
CitizenshipGovernanceHistoryLawUnity We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
HistoryLeadershipOpportunityPoliticsTransformation Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.
Conflict ResolutionDiplomacyHistoryPeaceUnity Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.
EnduranceExperienceHistoryResilienceSurvival First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
DisciplineHistoryResilienceRespectTraining Methods In the '60s and '70s and early '80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something - they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.
HistoryInnovationProgressSociety For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.
CultureHistoryReligionTravel Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
HistoryHuman FollyRecklessnessSquandering We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
Divine GiftGradual ChangeHistoryPerceptionReligion The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.
FreedomHistoryIdentityInnocenceLiberty I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
AccountabilityAtrocityHistoryShame In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
HistoryJusticeLeadershipRace RelationsUnresolved Issues For anyone who has ever asked why the U.S. needs to address the issue of reparations for its history of slavery, Donald Trump is why. He is the living embodiment of America's unresolved issues.
ChangeHistoryLeadershipPoliticsPopulism In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.
Cultural ChangeHistoryInnovationMusic EvolutionPersonal Growth Trap is new. It didn't start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn't exist - not even in the U.S. I've evolved with the music.
DiaryHistoryPoliticsPresidencyRelationship I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.
ContinuityHistoryReligionTruth The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
AdventureConflictCultural EncounterHistoryNature In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
HistoryNational LiberationRevolutionStruggleYouth The first generation of the young people of our revolution took up arms following Comrade Kim Il Sung and fought the bloody anti-Japanese struggle, thus achieving the historic cause of national liberation.
CourageHistoryIdentityResponsibilityWar I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.
AcknowledgmentDiscriminationHistoryRacial JusticeUnity In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
