Quotes on history

“Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; (Go ahead) sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “

Martin Luther King Jr.

Topics: even, falls, history

“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “

Martin Luther King Jr.

Topics: adolf, everything, forget

“There are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Topics: first, flaws, history

“Who benefits?”

Topics: benefits, cicero, history

“There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.”

Topics: anybody, anymore, disorders

“For it is commonly said: completed labors are pleasant.”

Topics: cicero, commonly, completed

“While there’s life, there’s hope.”

Topics: cicero, history, hope

“Let the punishment match the offense.”

Topics: cicero, history, match

“Cui bono?”

Topics: bono, cicero, history

“There were poets before Homer.”

Topics: before, cicero, history

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