Us History Quotes

History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past

we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.

Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.

Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty4 to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!

It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done.

Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.

I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.

So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one’s chances of being a victim of violence fivefold.

History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.

I guess love laughs at history a little.

History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.

She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it an unforgettable thing, making it their own

If the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story." - Magnetic Reverie

[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances of its composition.

You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.

South African history did not start in 1652.

Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is?

A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else.

These last months, I have learned that the acknowledged history that belongs to the daylight, that is not the only history. Turn over the stone and you will find another history, wriggling to escape.

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.

God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live at the edge of one time shifting to another time. These are the people who will make history

My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history.

All history is modern history.

Media is so influenceable, yet so influent. Whoever controls the media controls the society, and its opinion.

History is written by victors, ” said Duko. “But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.

They say that history is going on somewhere.They say it won't stop. I have heldOne picture still for a long time and waited.

. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.

... once you start demonizing groups of people, when you make them the other, you can justify doing just about anything you want to the, can't you? Look at history if you don't believe me.

The world will never know you because you did not cross the limits of yourself

Closing a museum to save money is like holding your breath to save oxygen...

In the seventh century the Arabs created a new world into which other peoples were drawn. In the nineteenth and twentieth, they were themselves drawn into a new world created in western Europe.

The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term "death camps" implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

No empire lasts forever, no dynasty continues unbroken. Some day, you and I will be mere legends. All that matters is whether we did what we could with the life that was given to us.

Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be conquered, victory or defeat. Anything less is to be forgotten to history.

Mayor Walmsley is using the typical Jim Crow manipulation tactics to deflect the blame and guilt. He's a classic racist politician with an ulterior motive, ” says Ora.

The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp.

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.

There is no denying it, our past stinks and seeps into our present. Occasionally I get such a potent whiff of history that my mind spins and my stomach lurches.

The History of computers is amazing... people which tell the story are looking like they are having fun.

Freedom is difficult…but we have never had to put a wall up to keep the people in.

Old, is it?" the man asks."Yes, very.""Pre-war, is it?""Yes, " I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion.

There is no surer basis for fanaticism than bad history, which is invariably history oversimplified.

History judges a leader by results. Let my results do the talking.

History is disappointed with us human being.

It is only when people don’t know history well that they judge the present so blindly in ignorance!

The answers to all questions of human society are in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible

History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.