History Quotes

• The past does not influence me; I influence it.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • History
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute their people do not remain standing.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • History
  • Remain
  • Regimes

• We learn from history. That's what it's all about.

  

  Luther Strange
  • History

• The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • World
  • Faith
  • Conference

• Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.

  

  Leon Uris
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Violence
  • Mankind
  • Murder

• If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.

  

  Alan Furst
  • People
  • Life
  • Party

• The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Men
  • History

• Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Foundation
  • Saint
  • Constitution Of USA

• There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

  

  Archibald F. Bennett
  • History
  • Subject
  • Examination

• The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.

  

  Amira Hass
  • History
  • Solutions
  • Final

• This is the best few tens of billions years in the history of the universe to do cosmology.

  

  Nima Arkani-Hamed
  • History
  • Universe
  • Cosmology

• …often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn’t that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their mark and they are remembered by history, we are offered a fantasy version of their lives.

  

  Bettany Hughes
  • Women
  • Characters
  • Philosopher

• Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Christianity
  • Century
  • Twentieth

• Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • History
  • Progress

• We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Family
  • History
  • Ignore

• Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • History
  • Future
  • Push

• God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

  

  Max Lucado
  • People
  • God
  • History

• Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • History
  • Revolution
  • Culmination

• I'm a big tradition guy. If you love this country and study history, then you will love Boston.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Country
  • Guy
  • Study

• It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

  

  Neale Donald Walsch
  • Great
  • History
  • Violence

• The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

  

  Juan Manuel Santos
  • History
  • Terrorists
  • Negotiate

• History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

  

  Erik Qualman
  • History
  • Firsts
  • Repeats

• All history is contemporary history.

  

  Benedetto Croce
  • History
  • Contemporary

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