Famous Quotes

"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."

Malcolm Muggeridge on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

• "One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up."

• "Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."

• "There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see."

• "One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything."

• "Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."