History Quotes

When the war was in progress, England and France agreed wholeheartedly with the Fourteen Points. As ...

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, th...

We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, an...

Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presenc...

The backward look behind the assuranceOf recorded history, the backward half-lookOver the shoulder, ...

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of t...

Human history is a Gaian dream.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collecti...

It’s very important that people take back their minds and that people analyse our dilemma in the con...

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic histor...

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming mega...

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated...

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darne...

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through t...

In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's ...

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as fir...

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

History a distillation of rumor

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgrace...

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of...

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

But then what is the alternative to trying to tell the truth about the Holocaust, the Famine, the Ar...

‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into suc...

Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in co...

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors ...

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education ...

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls...

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous execution...

The Northern powers are more like administrators, who manipulate other people’s history but produce ...

It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Geor...

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human...

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education...

The monumental tragedies of the 20th century -- a world-wide Great Depression, two devastating World...

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue...

Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling "primitive" (since this renders us "modern" ...

if you don't write it down, then it never happened

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, a...

The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is ...

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those sto...

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with...

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it in...

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of t...

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of h...

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of...

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify--capriciously--their urge for immortality. The te...

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a ...

Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigabl...

The historian’s task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always a...

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next...

It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is alw...

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the gre...

I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world t...

Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one lo...

Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believer...

This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and o...

It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

The fact that, within ten years, I lost one world, and after a time rose again, as it were, from spi...

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that som...

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is no...

On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Wh...

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and ...

That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness e...

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth...

Here dwell together still two men of noteWho never lived and so can never die:How very near they see...

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the sa...

(...) Sir Boris had fought and killed the Paynim; Sir Gawain, the Turk; Sir Miles, the Pole; Sir And...

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...

The motor car with its blinds drawn and an air of inscrutable reserve proceeded towards Piccadilly, ...

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Fr...

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxist...

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of...

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled abo...

There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learn...

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and...

When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes...