Quotes About History

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

Yeah,there was a whole chapter on you in my eight grade History of Angels textbook," Miles said. Arriane clapped. "And they told me that book was banned!

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

Jeff Sessions wished he wasn't the attorney general. The president Donald Trump has the most incompetent cabinet in history, and he's unhappy with only one of them. Only Jeff Sessions.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it's going to die, it has to die on its own

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

When politics promote hate, it becomes a rule, and populist provocation becomes standard. It has been the same throughout the entire history of humanity.

The history of skiing is important to me.

It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics is really what drives the plot.

He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.

Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.