History Quotes - page 2

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. View quote
Karl Marx
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. View quote
Fidel Castro
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. View quote
Kofi Annan
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. View quote
Edward Gibbon
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. View quote
Ronald David Laing
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. (Rudyard Kipling)
The greatest man in history was the poorest. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. View quote
Dan Quayle
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The history of free men is never really written by chance - but by choice. Their choice. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
History is a vast early warning system. View quote
Norman Cousins
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. View quote
Edmund Burke
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. (Georges Clemenceau)
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. View quote
Norman Mailer
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. View quote
Washington Irving
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. View quote
E. O. Wilson
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