Famous Quotes

"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."

Mahatma Gandhi on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi 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

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

• "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."

• "Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent."

• "Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."

• "Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."

• "Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep."