Quotes About Influence

History is written by the victors.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

History is all explained by geography.

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Where the women go, the culture goes.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.