Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

I'm not sure history has ended.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Revolutions are not improvised. They are not made at will by individuals, and not even by the most powerful associations. They come about through force of circumstances, and are independent of any deliberate will or conspiracy.

Power has to do with whatever decisions men make about the arrangements under which they live and about the events which make up the history of their times.

Things are politics for a long time before they become history.

I would urge that we at home now move on to the unfinished task of building a new South. We must not forever by bound to another lost cause.

History privileges no right side, and the arc [of history] can bend so that it loops back upon us.

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

If you go up on a mountain and scream about change, you better make sure you're ready for people to come.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

I'll say that technology will make revolutions start happening faster, but it'll make them harder to finish. Technology can't create leaders and cause institutions to appear.

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.

Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of the divided moments in the country. The late '60s certainly was one of them, the Civil War being another, but I'm hard-pressed to think of too many.