We Are Not Makers Of History Quotes

#1. We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. Her unseen palette of human relationships forged connections, established bonds, and changed lives in ways few of the attendees understood.

Anthony Flacco

#3. Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers ... Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Angela Carter

#4. When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I'm presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I've been living in a bubble. And I like it.

Woody Allen

#5. I wrote this book to fill a blind spot in our history, to remind us that outsider amateur game-makers creating personal games have always been here. Since before your Xbox. Since before your PlayStation.

Lest we forget where we come from. Lest we forget what we're capable of.

Anna Anthropy

#6. Toward the end of the Second World War, a
new consciousness arose amongst the public
and policy makers of the Western World. After
ten years of crippling economic depression
and another five at war, the public demanded
something new from their disintegrating
urban environments.

Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

#7. Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

Xavier Niel

#8. The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.

Juliette Gordon Low

#9. [The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

Benito Mussolini

#10. For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.

Lynsey Addario

#11. I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#12. People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#13. Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

A.J.P. Taylor

#14. History makers recognize the shift in times and seasons.

Sunday Adelaja

#15. History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

Steven Spielberg

#16. To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

Eric Hoffer

#17. Christians are called to be history makers on the earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

Milton Friedman