History Quotes

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

The obvious is always least understood.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.