Quotes About History

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.

If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

History must stay open, it is all humanity.

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.