Quotes About History

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.