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Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history. — Amilcar Cabral

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. — Douglas Coupland

Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record. — Patricia Leavy

If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people. — Leila Sales

People come and people go, but it's rare that one makes enough of an impact in life, that others will read as history. — Auliq Ice

I live alone," Knud said, "and I work alone, but I am never truly alone. I do my ancestor's work. I live the entire history of my country and people. — Maureen Johnson

If you believe people have no history
worth mentioning, it's easy to believe
they have no humanity worth defending — William Loren Katz

Maybe it's true that the people who live through the times that become history's pivotal points are those least likely to understand them. — Jean Hegland

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. — Frederik Pohl

What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history? — Ahad Ha'am

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history. — Nolan Bushnell

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. — Auguste Rodin

You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history. — Charlie Sheen

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing. — Gerda Lerner

I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future. — Winston S. Churchill

Upon examination of a people's history, beware the story teller's motives. — T.F. Hodge

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history. — Sherrod Brown

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people. — Dave Grohl

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

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C.S. Lewis

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song. — Brandi Carlile

World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives. — Martin McGuinness

Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why. — Kevin Spacey

It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere. — Natalie Maines

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better. — I.L. Peretz

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry. — Ed Koch

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. — E.L. Doctorow

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man. — Douglas Booth

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. — James Lovelock

Recent history takes a while to set. People really don't know what just happened. They only figure it out later. — Sheri S. Tepper

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property. — Voltaire

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison. — Bryan Stevenson

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about. — James Baldwin

Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of a part of themselves. It's a crime. — Haruki Murakami

I don't suppose there has been a moment in the world's history where more people felt themselves to be artists, of when less art was produced. — Auberon Waugh

There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives. — Craig Venter

We enter people's lives and then realize we've walked into a deep and long history that shapes and gives form to our every moment. — Jill Bialosky

History is made up of people recovering from the last disaster, — James S.A. Corey

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

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery. — Immortal Technique

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history. — John Henry Wigmore

A people without knowledge of their history is like a tree without roots." I — Gregory S. Parks

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. — Alfred North Whitehead

I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible. — Mitch Kapor

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall — Harry S. Truman

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state. — James Bovard

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare. — S. Jay Olshansky

I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by. — Russell Simmons

Historical omission points toward a culture's subconscious beliefs that some people matter less than others. — Aurin Squire

You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people, — Elbert Guillory

A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments. — T. S. Eliot

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

It's people like you who change history. People like me
we just let things happen to us. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived. — Aporva Kala

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler

It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close. — John Lydon

It's bad enough ... when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That's the end, really, that's the end. — Tsitsi Dangarembga

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it. — Richard Killeen

More blood's been spilled by the militant adherents of prophets of change than by any other group of people down through the history of man. — Gordon R. Dickson

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period. — George W. S. Trow

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this. — Jeremy Rifkin

All through human history, being a moral person and not being pulled into the dramatics and misbehavior of others had caused intelligent people grief. — James S.A. Corey

[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it's a good plan. — Adam Gopnik

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma. — Ruud Gullit

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. — Michael Beschloss

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history. — Marianne Williamson

People think of history in the long term, but history, in fact, it's a very sudden thing. — Philip Roth

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories. — Randy Alcorn

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else. — Harry S. Truman

I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it. — Nnedi Okorafor

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win. — Harold S. Kushner

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress. — Riccardo Tisci

You killed more people than anybody in history."
"Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me. — Orson Scott Card

People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws. — Thomas Pynchon

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them. — Jodi Picoult

People shouldn't be throwing away their history when it's still doing archery practice forty miles up the road. — Natasha Pulley