History Quotes

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
Richard milhous nixon - no event in american history is more...
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.
Stephen Jay Gould
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Stephen Spende
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
David Hume
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
E. M. Cioran
I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.
The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Karl r. poppe - the history of science is everywhere speculative....
If we fight a war and win it with H - Bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
Hans A. Bethe
Robert heinlein, the notebooks of lazurus long - a generation which ignores history has no past...
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
David Brinkley
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
C. P. Snow
History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.
James Joyce
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.
Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre - Match team talk
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Bertie Forbes
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
Those who don? t build must burn. It? s as old as history and juvenile delinquence.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux.
American Indian Prove
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.
John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Franois Maurice Mitterrand
I am responsible only to God and history.
Francisco Franco
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
George William Curtis
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl Rowen
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason".
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight David Eisenhowe
What is history but a fable agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Hendrik W. Van Loon