Historical Trend Quotes

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

The priesthood has in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning.

Immigrants have historically been an entrepreneurial bunch.

If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.

There is a constant trend in human affairs toward the perfectibility of mankind. This was plainly stated at the time of tile French Revolution and has been reasserted ever since that time, and with increasing plausibility.

The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which to their own profession they, by a certain instinct, seem always to have perceived.

There is one iron law of history. When a country’s economy starts to decline, if it continues to decline, it will lose its greatness.

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

Historically, the pull towards the center in European politics has been incredibly powerful. From Italy to Germany, it has been almost impossible for non-centrist forces to obtain real influence.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

I think religious movies are more of a subset of the broader historical trend, and also the fact that there is more history in Europe, whereas in America, America is about the future. People in Europe think more of the past, and that's why I think filmmakers are drawn to it more.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

Historically in every recovery, because the president rightly did inherit a recession. But historically, the lagging indicator always deals with employment.

If you look back at our history, we always tend to see drivers in waves move in one direction so it's not uncommon to have three, four or five of your top drivers exit for different reasons in a short period of time, two years, whatever it is.