Quotes About History

The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

Literature is the history of the soul.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.