History Quotes
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I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.
Philip Treacy
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History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
Albert Camus
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It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.
Alan Brinkley
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The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people’s lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.
Chris Killip
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
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I consider him Stalin one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion, even greater than Lenin. Until Stalin's death I was anti-Stalinist, but I always regarded him as a brilliant personality.
Alexander Zinoviev
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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Newt Gingrich
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If my making history makes it easier for a trans kid at home somewhere to feel more at home in their skin, then I'm so excited about that.
Yance Ford
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It was that hard; I still feel that way. But I believe that President Bush failed to lead. History will judge him harshly not for the mistakes he made- we all make mistakes- but for the opportunities he squandered.
Joe Biden
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From the standpoint of the world’s biota, global travel represents a radically new phenomenon and, at the same time, a replay of the very old. The drifting apart of the continents that Wegener deduced from the fossil record is now being reversed—another way in which humans are running geologic history backward and at high speed. Think of it as a souped-up version of plate tectonics, minus the plates. By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
Mahatma Gandhi