History Quotes

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been bel...

A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making h...

There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who ...

The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image f...

Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow...

Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, peo...

As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and des...

If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, t...

Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilli...

Whatever happens in the world - whatever is discovered or created or bitterly fought over - eventual...

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many ...

It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectl...

From that original colony sprang seven names that still feature on the landscape: Roanoke (which has...

Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when he delegates mi...

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From ...

I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It to...

Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one do...

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex c...

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefo...

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has or...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fig...

The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist befor...

The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago.That gap is the ma...

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things...

No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.

This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was di...

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if ...

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it w...

Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.

Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs,...

Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner,...

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time...

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people tr...

The educated man, habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows o...

Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdo...

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had...

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forc...

He believed the press was doing its job, but, in the absence of candor from the committee, it had re...

Bernstein was impressed by Sloan's thoughtfulness. Sloan seemed convinced that the President, whom h...

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hop...

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to ...

Adolf Hitler! Ken, it makes me furious. Forty million people die to defeat that megalomaniac, and he...

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ...

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reje...

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the war...

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, ver...

History is biology's dumping ground

future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning p...

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government...

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a...

The Scholomance was a piece of Shadowhunter history come to life. A cold castle of towers and corrid...

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or h...

When the historian Charles A. Beard was asked about the lessons from history he said there were fo...

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmat...

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate...

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based ...

It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his...

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we ...

China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stand...

In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt th...

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic abo...

History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect...

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionarie...

Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This i...

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Reli...

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton w...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest...

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has ...

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.