Quotes About History

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

History is written by those who hang heroes.

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus