Quotes About History

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.

I may have not done History in high school but War cannot be ended by endless talks, only Cold War.

The Djojobojo Prophecy doesn't just tell you WHAT happened and WHERE it happened...it tells you WHY it happened!

We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race. Yet we have managed to kill off millions of our population in an arrangement which we call "war.

Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war.

A nation that is built on war will forever have conflict.

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

There is a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare- and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history... is the will of a single man.

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.

A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.

What millions died - that Caesar might be great!

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.