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Quotes About History

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
~ Wendell Berry
Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.
~ Steve Inskeep
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.
~ Charles Fort
History is what the evidence compels us to believe.
~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott
One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying JJ, Pfizer and Warner for their future college funds.
~ David O. Sacks
The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.
~ Yanar Mohammed
The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.
~ Edward Gibbon
You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.
~ Elbert Guillory
History proves nothing because it contains everything.
~ Emile M. Cioran
It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.
~ Terry Pratchett
Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'
~ Conan O'Brien
In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.
~ Nicki Minaj
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.
~ Cornel West
History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.
~ Michel Faber
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.
~ Edmond de Goncourt
Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -
~ Emily Dickinson
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
~ Erica Jong
History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.
~ Milan Kundera
History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.
~ Nikki Giovanni
I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
~ Nick Turse
Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.
~ Pete Seeger
We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.
~ Femi Kuti