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 on history
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. Jimmy Carter on history
You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough. Tom Hiddleston on history
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them. Etta James on history
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. Hannah Arendt on history
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. Leslie Fiedler on history
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. David Hume on history
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on history
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history. David Icke on history
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. Edward de Bono on history
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. William McKinley on history
There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things. Tim Burton on history
Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. Cat Stevens on history
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. Jawaharlal Nehru on history
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? W. H. Auden on history
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. William Morris on history
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. Madalyn Murray O'Hair on history
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight. Neil Armstrong on history
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. Brian Eno on history
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? Emile M. Cioran on history