Alfred de Vigny Quotes

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

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

History is a novel whose author is the people.

History is simply man’s desperate bid to give substance to his most visionary dreams.

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

I think there is no world without theatre.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

The more I am French, the more I feel a part of humanity.

We can't defend French culture without a [computer] software industry.

There is a strong propaganda value to history as taught in American Schools

We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I can see ... only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals

History is the most dangerous substance that the chemistry of the intellect has created…. I makes men dream, intoxicates them, breeds false memories in them, aggravates their responses, takes up their ancient grievances, torments them in their sleep, carries them into the delirium of grandeur or else of persecution, and turns nations bitter, intolerable, and vain.

France is the most civilized country there is.

An affection for Hong Kong and a national identity are not mutually exclusive. We can let children learn more about Hong Kong's history, culture, politics, and social development, and at the same time, we must make them have their national identity.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity.