History Quotes

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or b...

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the o...

We are off! And do we know it, not just because the world is yelling "Lift-off" in our ears, but bec...

I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to so...

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part...

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking inform...

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt agai...

I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu...

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In ...

Cooking gave us not just the meal but also the occasion: the practice of eating together at an appoi...

Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a...

Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling...

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and persona...

Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in ord...

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discover...

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world...

They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indiffe...

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apat...

The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the...

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll...

We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who ...

therein lies the power of culture: it redeems horror by transforming it into existential wisdom. If ...

I thought of the fate of Descartes’ famous formulation: man as ‘master and proprietor of nature.’ Ha...

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a b...

The first step in liquidating a people,' said Hubl, 'is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its ...

Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing spee...

Their message will never be decoded… because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when ...

Their message will never be decoded, not only because there is no key to it, but also because people...

I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class....

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Sin...

History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scienti...

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam...

Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empire...

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black,...

And once upon a time I wondered: Is writing epic fantasy not somehow a betrayal? Did I not somehow d...

Stripped of its arrogance, its desire to make off with half of the patrimony and never be seen again...

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embra...

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has...

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is mor...

Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image o...

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each...

Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong ass...

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were pay...

Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws ...

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a hu...

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

When evening comes, I go back home, and go to my study. On the threshold I take off my work clothes,...

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this w...

Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite ot...

Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight

Men always praise antiquity and fault the present, although not always reasonably, and they are part...

Bird asked what a paleontologist was and Mom said that if he took a complete, illustrated guide to t...

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of condi...

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we ...

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on e...

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of his...

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decl...

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because...

Moynihan, when he was ambassador to the United Nations, produced the same effect when he attacked th...

Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of ch...

History is a vast early warning system.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something mi...

To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the po...

Many of the great economic masters, though they had originally favored radio-bliss in moderation as ...

The Noblest form of Affection

Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am...

I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, sayin...

Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies ...

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and...

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history o...

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or oth...

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history...

One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continu...

The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He wh...

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar w...

I see, in place of that empty figment of one linear history which can be kept up only by shutting on...

Scientists are wont to assume that myths and God-ideas are creations of primitive man, and that as s...

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not ...

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off....

The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those...

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history...

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, im...

The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dre...

Give me liberty or give me d

Give me liberty or give me death.".]

Kvothe continued, smiling himself “I see you laugh. Very well, for simplicity’s sake, let us assume ...

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.