History Quotes
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
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 whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.Walter Bagehot
History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.Albert Camus
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
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.Enoch Powell
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
History is a vast early warning system.Norman Cousins
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratliffe
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Richard Milhous Nixon
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.George Bernard Shaw
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
History is a vision of God? s creation on the move.Arnold Toynbee
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.Tom Stoppard
There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.Unknown
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.Gene Fowle
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.Albert Camus
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, Pro Publio Sestio
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.Will Durant
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.Lawrence K. Frank
In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.Farnsworth Crowde
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.Willa Sibert Cathe
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.Alvin Toffle
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.Edmund Burke
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre - Match team talk
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.Jean Anouilh
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.Milton Friedman
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.George William Curtis
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
For four - Fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.J. W. Schopf
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.George Stanley McGovern
