Mort Walker Quotes

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic.

I think a sense of history and perspective for our young people today is essential.

The advertisements form the most interesting and practical city news. They are the hopes, the thoughts, the joys, the plans, the shames, the losses, the mishaps, the fortunes, the pleasures, the miseries, the politics, and the religion of the people. Each advertiser is therefore a reporter, a sort of penny-a-liner, he paying the penny. What a picture ... one day's advertisements ... presents to mankind!

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

You need to figure out other societies, where they came from, what the people believe in, what they do, how their ethnic divisions work, which is often very different from our own; then design your policies around that. Pay attention. I think that's the simple answer, which is just to realize that not everybody is like the United States. Whether you study history or sociology, or anthropology, journalism, there's room for seeing there are other cultures and other ways and other structures.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

The political biographies most popular in the modern era often tell us less about their subjects than about the moment in which the books themselves are published.

Study history. Study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

History is not ancestral memory or collective tradition. It is what people learned from priests, schoolmasters, the writers of history books, and the compilers of magazine articles and TV programs.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.

Falsehoods which we spurn to-day Were the truths of long ago.

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

The classics should be set in students’ minds so that they become the genes of Chinese national culture.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front.

Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide.