Quotes About History

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the biggest fight in history.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.