History Quotes
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
