951 private quotes tagged history

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?” — Jackie Kennedy

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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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“For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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

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

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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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“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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“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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