History Quotes

We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned an...

It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradict...

[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the sp...

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nati...

This tottered ensign of my ancestorsWhich swept the desert shore of that dead seaWhereof we got the ...

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

It's nice to think that the weirdos get to decide what matters about the past, since it's the weirdo...

History is defined by people who don’t really understand what they are defining.

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time...

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated co...

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ...

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageou...

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history...

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the ...

Study the past if you would define the future.

Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.

There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont beli...

When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will t...

I dont believe knowing can save us. What isconstant in history is greed and foolishness and a love o...

This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of the...

You can't really move forward until you look back.[From Remaking America panel discussion at George ...

The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, r...

God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal differe...

I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human...

The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote...

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when on...

... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassi...

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the...

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today w...

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we...

[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a b...

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since th...

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do ...

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever le...

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is w...

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, n...

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was ...

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the ...

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of suc...

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movemen...

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see...

The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took pla...

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people a...

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's someth...

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals o...

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they tho...

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

Not the historians. No, not them. Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, h...

Anticipating their calamity and fright when deportation day came (August 6, 1942) he [Henryk Goldszm...

'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't reall...

the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her...

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the e...

This happened back east of course. I've heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the count...

Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the m...

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes b...

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an offi...

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as tr...

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil whi...

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, a...

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the be...

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; cultur...

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge,...

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman...

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American histor...

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your c...

A tormenting thought: as of a certain point, history was no longer real. Without noticing it, all ma...

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, lea...

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and f...

My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate al...

So the next time you doubt the strangeness of the future, remember how you were born in a hunter-gat...

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understa...

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good s...

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't isTo meet an antique bookIn just the dress his century wore;A pri...

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu...

Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn't the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon ...

More history than ever is today being revised or invented by people who do not want the real past, b...

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...

If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compressio...