History Quotes
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.Robert Frost
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.C. P. Snow
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.Haile Selassie
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.Carl Sagan
History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim, it was only a dream.Unknown
An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation.Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933
Ideas shape the course of history.John Maynard Keynes
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.Karl Poppe
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.Lois McMaster Bujold
Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.Unknown
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.Lord Billingsley
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
History knows no resting places and no plateaus.Henry Kissinge
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.William H. Borah
What is history but a fable agreed upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.Philip Guedalla
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.Enoch Powell
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre - Match team talk
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason".
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.David Hume
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - Or to make it the last.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.R. D. Laing
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
History is more or less bunk.Henry Ford
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.John B. Gough
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.Barbara Ehrenreich
