Quotes About History

Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.

O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

There is no such thing as a former KGB man.

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.