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

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

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

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“I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.” — Richard Dawkins

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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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“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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“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.” — Winston Churchill

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“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” — Ayn Rand

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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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“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.” — Aristotle

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