History Lesson Quotes

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.

The wisdom, the duty of mild government I conceive to be the great but disregarded lesson of all history.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

Angel of Death' is like a history lesson, but as soon as we released it everybody was calling us Nazis. Our singer's a dark-skinned Chilean, there's no way we're fascists.

Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows the turns of American history like a little sister. I can't recommend this book loudly enough.

In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes before your teacher goes on and describes where it actually was.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a history lesson. These are ways to make the film feel niche and not for everyone.