Quotes About History

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

Not a stone but has its history.

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their asses off all year long and get two weeks off! It's incredible.