951 private quotes tagged history

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

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“The history of the world is the world's court of justice.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“The history of art is the history of revivals.” — Samuel Butler

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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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“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.” — Pablo Picasso

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“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.” — Bertrand Russell

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“History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.” — Karl Marx

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“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.” — Karl Marx

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“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.” — Martin Luther

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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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“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.” — John F. Kennedy

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“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” — Charles Darwin

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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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“The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.” — Dave Barry

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“It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.” — Rebecca West

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“To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.” — Albert Camus

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“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.” — Harry S. Truman

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“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.” — Karl Marx

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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” — Plato

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“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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