History Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt -
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
G. M. Trevelyan
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I love anything to do with history.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
Kate Atkinson -
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.
Aaron Klein -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
David Brin
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
Jack Kevorkian -
The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz -
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Students’ role doesn’t end in the classroom. Student-led movements have always been a part in changing history and fulfilling peoples’ dreams of achieving freedom and dignity interview after her speech
Tawakkol Karman -
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Carl Jung -
The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'
V. S. Naipaul
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
Camille Paglia -
My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
Brian Tracy -
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln -
For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.
Kenneth R. Miller -
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose
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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.
Oscar Wilde -
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx -
History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
Jay Parini -
Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history.
Charles Rosen