Quotes About History

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

History - the devil's scripture