Quotes About History

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

History is all explained by geography.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.