History Quotes
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Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.
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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
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Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
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The fate of the Statute of Uses is one of the most curious in legal history. Its secret and unavowed purpose, of securing the estates of the monasteries for the Crown, it accomplished. Its ostensible purpose, fortified by a wealth of hypocritical justification, it entirely failed to achieve. Not only were devises of lands, after a brief interval, put on a legal footing; but, as is well known, uses of lands as distinguished from legal estates, soon re-appeared in full vigour. Whilst in unforeseen directions, that statute worked havoc in the medieval system of conveyancing; and gradually modernized it out of existence.
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The past is history, the future's a mystery.
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There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.
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Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.
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In the course of history the refugee was the first peaceful immigrant. In a social structure offering no place for a stranger, the unfortunate who had" taken the flight and so evaded death and black fate" at the hands of his enemies was sheltered under the sacred law of hospitality, since he came "as a fugative and a suppliant".
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.
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I want to make my mark in the NFL. This is the highest level, and this is where it goes down in history.
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Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
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The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.
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We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that's the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war. The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously. I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history.
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He was really our last connection to a bygone time in the history of New Orleans.
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He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
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It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.
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The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.
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I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.
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History is the invention of historians.
