951 private quotes tagged history

“I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.” — John Henrik Clarke

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“We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.” — Abdul Kalam

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“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.” — Brian Eno

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“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” — George Orwell

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“History is written by the victors.” — Winston Churchill

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“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.” — Charles Bukowski

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“Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.” — Harry S. Truman

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“History should be written as philosophy.” — Voltaire

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“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.” — Karl Marx

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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.” — Mason Cooley

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“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.” — Francis Bacon

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“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.” — Walt Whitman

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“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.” — Anatole France

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“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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