History Quotes
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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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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If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
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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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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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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
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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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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.
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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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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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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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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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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.
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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, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
