Quotes About History

The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.