History Quotes

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

I am the dream and the hope of the slave

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Men make their own history

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

The longest suicide note in history.