Modern History Quotes
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Modern History Quotes & Sayings
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They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay ... maybe medieval. — Roberta Pearce
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.
— Stephen Kinzer
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
— Golda Meir
Heresy no longer existed within religion; itwas founded in the state. — Reinhart Koselleck
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
— Harold Rosenberg
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
— Walter Raleigh
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.
— Greil Marcus
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
— Jill Lepore
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.
— Christopher Hitchens
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
— James Russell Lowell
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.
— John Gresham Machen
I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.
— Alexander Lebedev
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
— Robert Penn Warren
The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
— Igor Babailov
Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art.
— Neville Weston
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
— Julian Fellowes
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
— Thomas Merton
Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.
— David Horowitz
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
— Shereen El Feki
I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
— Emma Watson
the only man in modern history to successfully kidnap a commanding general. Paddy
— Christopher McDougall
All history is modern history.
— Wallace Stevens
I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.
— Philippa Gregory
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
— Andrew Hoberek
Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.
— Eric Bolling
The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.
— Pankaj Mishra
I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.
— George Bancroft
