The best Quotes about the 19th Century

One of the things that draws us to the 19th century is that it's far enough away to feel exotic but close enough to be approachable. We can still recognize ourselves in those people, even as we see all the ways in which our lives have diverged from theirs.

Louis Bayard - August 2019

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Erich Fromm

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde

Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free.

Barack Obama - Inauguration Speech, 21st January 2013

Freedom

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Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

Braveheart

History

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

History

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

Heather Brewer in Vladimir Tod - Ninth Grade Slays

Revolution History

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Karl Marx

History

It's not always the most powerful who write history. It's the ones who survive.

Liandrin Guirale in The Wheel of Time - Season 2

History

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Karl Marx

Revolution History

People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.

Barack Obama

History 2008 German Unity Berlin

This is for the record. History is written by the victor. History is filled with liars. If he lives and we die, his truth becomes written - and ours is lost.

Captain John Price in Call of Duty - Modern Warfare

History

If we don't mind our own histories, it will do the same to us.

Viserys Targaryen in House Of The Dragon - Season 1 Episode 1

History

A historian is a hunter, my lord. Seeking out signs in the undergrowth of correspondence and memoir, tracking prey via the spoor of memory.

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 3: Queen of Fire

History

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

Terry Jones

History

History is a living thing. Paper is dead.

Elder in Castlevania - Season 1 Episode 2

History

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

Stephen Ambrose

History

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

History

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

Adam Curtis

History

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Quentin Tarantino

History

Presidents who obsess over history obsess about their place in it, instead of forging it.

Francis Underwood in House of Cards - Season 2 Episode 7

History

If my characters didn't surprise me, I'd think there was something wrong.

Louis Bayard - Juni 2022

I used to be very clever about setting books in London, Paris, and that way I could justify research trips - that's what I do for my art, right?

Louis Bayard - February 2021

I try to be as historically accurate as possible, but I think the story's more important than the history.

Louis Bayard - March 2014

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Erich Fromm

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Erich Fromm

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde

Thinking Patience & Endurance

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Dreaming Ambition

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

Temptation

For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

Barack Obama

Change

When you fall, the real test is whether you can ignore the naysayers, pick yourself up and come back stronger.

Barack Obama - January 28, 2013 - Miami Heat visit the White House

Beginning

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

Change Motivation

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

People learn to love their chains.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

Freedom Slavery

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley

Freedom

I believe the dead haunt us because we love them too little.

The Pale Blue Eye

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Children & Childhood Parents

How does President Obama like his coffee? Like himself? Weak?

Zach Galifianakis in Between Two Ferns

Barack Obama

We went from a shitty team to one of the all-time best dynasties. All you needed was one little match to start that whole fire.

Michael Jordan in The Last Dance - Episode 10

Chicago Bulls

The natural world can continue to surprise us as long as we give it space to thrive.

Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1

Conservation & Environment Protection

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