Quotes About History

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.