History Quotes

Barca is nothing but a small part of Real Madrid’s history

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote - and I!

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.

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

On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

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.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.