Quotes About History

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game.

If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.