- The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
- Kim Il-sung on History
- The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
- A. Whitney Brown on History
- The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
- Jon Meacham on History
- The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
- Peter Berger on History
- The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
- Jessamyn West on History
- The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
- Vladimir Putin on History
- The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
- Aleister Crowley on History
- The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
- Mao Zedong on History
- 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 on History
- The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
- Albert J. Nock on History
- The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
- Muhammad Iqbal on History
- The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.
- Nancy Pelosi on History
- The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
- Noam Chomsky on History
- The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
- David Attenborough on History
- The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on History
- The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
- Golda Meir on History
- The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
- Lance Morrow on History
- The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
- Joseph Brodsky on History
- The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on History
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
- Lord Acton on History
- The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
- Ambrose Bierce on History
- The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.
- Mitt Romney on History
- The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
- Erica Jong on History
- The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
- Terry Eagleton on History
- The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
- Daniel Craig on History
- The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on History
- The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
- Irving R. Kaufman on History
- The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on History
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- Henry Miller on History
- The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
- Henry Louis Gates on History
- The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
- George W. Bush on History
- The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.
- James Buchan on History
- The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
- Nick Clegg on History
- The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
- Shimon Peres on History
- The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
- Queen Elizabeth II on History
- The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
- George Orwell on History
- The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain on History
- The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
- Benjamin Disraeli on History
- The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
- M. Scott Peck on History
- The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
- Walter Bagehot on History
- The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
- The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
- Stephen Hawking on History
- The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
- William James on History
- 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 on History
- The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
- David Brin on History
- The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
- James Buchan on History
- Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
- Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
- Andre Malraux on History
- There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
- Georgios A. Papandreou on History
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