History Quotes

इतिहास की दाई हिंसा है।

The midwife of history is violence.

The midwife of history is violence.

जो कोई भी यह सोचता है कि युद्ध से स्थायी जीत हासिल की जा सकती है, उसे यूरोपीय इतिहास की किताबें पढ़कर सबक लेना चाहिए।

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

अगर आने वाली पीढ़ियां हमसे पूछें कि हम [द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध में] किस लिए लड़ रहे हैं, तो हम उन्हें लिडिस की दास्तान सुनाएंगे।

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

युद्ध जिसे बूढ़ों ने रचा और जवानों ने लड़ा, जबकि बूढ़े खड़े होकर देखते रहे और तालियां बजाकर दाद देते रहे।

war made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.

war made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.

हमें सीनेट के लिए अपने दम पर पहली डेमोक्रेटिक महिला चुनने में 200 साल लग गए, और वह बारबरा मिकुलस्की थीं। छह साल बाद, हमने एक बड़ी सफलता हासिल की: हमने सीनेट के लिए चार नई डेमोक्रेटिक महिलाओं को चुना। सीनेटर मिकुलस्की के पास अब कुछ साथी हैं।

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.

मिशेल एलेक्जेंडर की विद्वत्ता से भरपूर शानदार कृति 'द न्यू जिम क्रो' को पढ़ने के बाद, किसी को यह भयानक अहसास होता है कि अश्वेत लोगों के लिए अमेरिकी आपराधिक न्याय प्रणाली सोवियत संघ के गुलाग जैसी लगती है—जहाँ गुलाग विचारों को सजा देता था, वहीं यह प्रणाली किसी की स्थिति या हालात को सजा देती है।

After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.

After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.

विद्वान लंबे समय से इस बात पर बहस कर रहे हैं कि क्या सोवियत संघ को किसी तरह के सामाजिक लोकतंत्र में बदला जा सकता था। मुझे खुद इस पर संदेह है। मुझे लगता है कि गोर्बाचेव को बहुत देर से समझ आया कि बदलाव के उनके प्रयासों ने उन नई, विघटनकारी ताकतों को हवा दे दी थी जिनकी उन्होंने उम्मीद नहीं की थी। उन्होंने दरवाजा थोड़ा सा खोला और एक तेज हवा के झोंके ने उसे पूरा खोल दिया।

Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.

Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.

महत्वपूर्ण कलाकार वे नवोन्मेषक (innovators) होते हैं जिनके काम से उनके बाद आने वालों के काम करने का तरीका बदल जाता है।

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

पेंटागन की जानकारी और रीगन के शासनकाल में पेंटागन के अधिकारी रहे लॉरेंस कॉर्ब जैसे विश्लेषकों के अनुमानों के आधार पर, नष्ट हुए और क्षतिग्रस्त हुए आर्मी तथा मरीन कॉर्प्स के उपकरणों को ठीक करने की लागत अब लगभग 30 अरब डॉलर आंकी गई है, और इराक में हमारे रुकने के हर एक अतिरिक्त साल के साथ इसमें 14 अरब डॉलर का इजाफा और हो जाएगा। भले ही यह धन कल ही उपलब्ध करा दिया जाए, फिर भी सेनाओं को संघर्ष की शुरुआत वाली स्थिति में वापस लाने में वर्षों लग जाएंगे।

Based on information from the Pentagon and estimates by analysts such as former Reagan Pentagon official Lawrence Korb, the costs of restoring destroyed and damaged Army and Marine Corps equipment is now estimated to be close to $30 billion, and it will grow by an additional $14 billion for every additional year we stay in Iraq. Even if these funds were available tomorrow, it would take years to restore the forces to the state they were in at the outset of the conflict.

Based on information from the Pentagon and estimates by analysts such as former Reagan Pentagon official Lawrence Korb, the costs of restoring destroyed and damaged Army and Marine Corps equipment is now estimated to be close to $30 billion, and it will grow by an additional $14 billion for every additional year we stay in Iraq. Even if these funds were available tomorrow, it would take years to restore the forces to the state they were in at the outset of the conflict.

एक और बुनियादी सत्य यह है कि इतिहास के लिए ईश्वर की एक योजना है। इतिहास दैव-प्रेरित है, कोई इत्तेफ़ाक नहीं।

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

शास्त्रों से हमें कुछ ऐसे बुनियादी सत्य मिलते हैं जो इतिहास को पढ़ाने का आधार बन सकते हैं। पहला बुनियादी सत्य यह है कि इतिहास पर ईश्वर का नियंत्रण है। ईश्वर का यह नियंत्रण देखभाल करने, शासन करने, रक्षा करने, पोषण करने और संरक्षण देने के रूप में हो सकता है। वह अपनी इच्छा को दिव्य देखरेख के जरिए या फिर दैवीय हस्तक्षेप से पूरी करते हैं।

From the Scriptures we find basic truths that may serve as the foundation of our teaching of history. The first basic truth is that God is in control of history. God's control may take the form of caring, governing, protecting, sustaining, and preserving. He exercises His will through divine superintendence or by divine intervention

From the Scriptures we find basic truths that may serve as the foundation of our teaching of history. The first basic truth is that God is in control of history. God's control may take the form of caring, governing, protecting, sustaining, and preserving. He exercises His will through divine superintendence or by divine intervention

Hum bas hath par hath dharkar baithkar Martin King ka jashn nahi mana sakte aur yeh nahi pooch sakte ki un jaisa doosra vyakti kab aayega. Nahi, nahi mere pyare yuva dosto. Humein us mahan kavi June Jordan ke sath apni aawaz milani hogi aur yeh sabit karna hoga ki 'jiska hum intezaar kar rahe the, woh hum khud hain.'

We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young friends. We must join our voices with that blessed poet June Jordan and demonstrate that 'we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.'

We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young friends. We must join our voices with that blessed poet June Jordan and demonstrate that 'we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.'

मैं आधुनिकतावादी (मॉडर्निस्ट) और उत्तर-आधुनिकतावादी (पोस्ट-मॉडर्निस्ट) दृष्टिकोण की शिक्षा देने की कोशिश करता हूँ। एक तरफ, यदि आप एक चित्रकार हैं, तो आपको पेंटिंग का इतिहास पता होना चाहिए। लेकिन साथ ही, मैं उस दौर में भी दिलचस्पी रखता हूँ जिसमें हम जी रहे हैं। मुझे टेलीविज़न, फ़िल्में, किताबें और संगीत बहुत पसंद है। इसलिए मैं कला को अन्य सभी सांस्कृतिक गतिविधियों के साथ-साथ एक सांस्कृतिक उत्पादन के रूप में भी देखता हूँ। तो यह एक तरह का उत्तर-आधुनिक दृष्टिकोण है, जो किसी एक माध्यम तक सीमित नहीं है, बल्कि यह समय से जुड़ा है—क्या आपकी कला आज के इस वर्तमान समय के प्रासंगिक है? यही मेरा शिक्षण दर्शन है, ये दोनों ही बातें समान रूप से महत्वपूर्ण हैं।

I try to teach a modernist and postmodernist position. On one hand, if you're a painter, you need to know the history of painting. But I'm also interested in the moment we live in. I love television, and movies, and books, and music. So I also think of art as this cultural production along with all this other stuff that's happening. So that's a kind of postmodern, not media-specific, but the times, what is your art relevant to this moment we live in versus media specificity? That's my teaching philosophy, both of those things are important.

I try to teach a modernist and postmodernist position. On one hand, if you're a painter, you need to know the history of painting. But I'm also interested in the moment we live in. I love television, and movies, and books, and music. So I also think of art as this cultural production along with all this other stuff that's happening. So that's a kind of postmodern, not media-specific, but the times, what is your art relevant to this moment we live in versus media specificity? That's my teaching philosophy, both of those things are important.

हैरियट टबमैन एक अंतरिक्ष यात्री की तरह थीं, जो सितारों की मदद से रास्ता ढूंढते हुए दक्षिण से उत्तर की ओर सफर करती थीं।

Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.

Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.

मुझे नहीं लगता कि किसी भी अन्य शहर में ऐसा कोई व्यक्ति है जिसने वास्तव में उस तरीके को दस्तावेज किया हो जिस तरह से वे जिए हैं या खुद शहर का दस्तावेजीकरण किया हो। यदि आप 20वीं सदी के उत्तरार्ध से लेकर 21वीं सदी तक के न्यूयॉर्क को देखना चाहते हैं, तो आपको बिल कनिंगहम के आर्काइव्स को देखना होगा।

I don't think any other city actually has anyone who has actually documented the way they have lived or documented the city themselves. If you want to look at New York in the last half of the 20th century, into the 21st, you would look at Bill Cunningham's archives.

I don't think any other city actually has anyone who has actually documented the way they have lived or documented the city themselves. If you want to look at New York in the last half of the 20th century, into the 21st, you would look at Bill Cunningham's archives.

एक समय ऐसा रहा होगा जब ऐतिहासिक संरक्षण का मतलब यहाँ-वहाँ किसी पुरानी इमारत को बचा लेना भर रहा होगा, लेकिन वे दिन अब लद चुके हैं। आज संरक्षण का काम समुदायों और उनमें निहित मूल्यों को बचाना है।

There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

लिंकन सेंटर में होने वाले जैज़ संगीत की सबसे खास बात यह है कि यह शायद पहली बार है जब अमेरिकी संस्कृति की इस बेहद अहम कला शैली को खुद को प्रदर्शित करने के लिए एक ऐसी जगह मिली है जो खास तौर पर इसके प्रदर्शन के अनुकूल है।

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that its the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that its the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.

एक दर्शक के रूप में, जब हम मौखिक इतिहास की परियोजनाओं से रूबरू होते हैं, तो न केवल हम कुछ नया सीखते हैं, बल्कि एक तरह से हम उन चीज़ों के भी गवाह बनते हैं जिनका हमने व्यक्तिगत रूप से अनुभव नहीं किया है।

As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear witness to that which we have not experienced personally.

As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear witness to that which we have not experienced personally.

हम पुरातत्व में एक नए विशाल युग की शुरुआत कर रहे हैं। गहरे महासागरों में टाइम कैप्सूल।

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

जब चीन का नव-उभरता हुआ मध्यम वर्ग अपने हितों को समझने लगेगा और कानून के शासन (rule of law) के महत्व को पहचान लेगा, तो वहां की मौजूदा सत्ता संरचना की नींव हिल जाएगी। यह एक ऐसी प्रक्रिया है जिसे कोई भी सरकार लंबे समय तक रोक नहीं सकती। कुछ सीमाओं के साथ यही बात कुछ अरब देशों पर भी लागू होती है। लेकिन हमें धैर्य रखना होगा। 1980 के दशक में किसी ने नहीं सोचा था कि पोलैंड का स्वतंत्रता आंदोलन पूरे पूर्वी ब्लॉक के पतन का कारण बन जाएगा। यही वजह है कि यह सोचना एक बहुत बड़ी भूल होगी कि सत्तावादी व्यवस्थाएं कभी खत्म नहीं हो सकतीं।

When the newly formed middle class in China begins to perceive its interests and discovers the value of the rule of law, the existing power structure will lose its foundation. It is a process that no government can put a stop to in the long term. That also applies to some Arab countries, with some limitations. But we have to be patient. In the 1980s, nobody expected that the freedom movement in Poland would lead to the collapse of entire Eastern Bloc. That's why it would be a huge mistake were we to believe that authoritarian systems were indestructible.

When the newly formed middle class in China begins to perceive its interests and discovers the value of the rule of law, the existing power structure will lose its foundation. It is a process that no government can put a stop to in the long term. That also applies to some Arab countries, with some limitations. But we have to be patient. In the 1980s, nobody expected that the freedom movement in Poland would lead to the collapse of entire Eastern Bloc. That's why it would be a huge mistake were we to believe that authoritarian systems were indestructible.