History Quotes

Barbara tuchman - history is the unfolding of miscalculation....
Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
Matrix, The
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.
Ronald Reagan
When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.
Harold Walke
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
Oliver wendell holmes jr. - a page of history is worth a pound of logic....
Napoleon bonaparte - what is history but a fable agreed upon....
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Peter Drucke
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi, _Gandhi, An Autobiography_, page 446
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix G. Rohatyn
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - A desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - But faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - Faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
George Frost Kennan
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
Marshal Tito
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. Saluting crew of the Apollo 11.
Richard Milhous Nixon
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over - Organized generation of youngsters in our history.
Eda J. Le Shan
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
Voltaire
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
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.
Albert Coope
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us.
Wystan Hugh Auden
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratliffe
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf
Well - Behaved women rarely make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Kahlil Gibran
History is a vision of God? s creation on the move.
Arnold Toynbee
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle
Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.
Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II