History Quotes · Page 116

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

— Mason Cooley

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

— Philip Roth

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

— Julian Barnes

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

— Robert Byrd

[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

— Arthur Kemp

“reviewing History's great idea, the one way you can make things change”

— Anonymous

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than…

— Milton R. Hunter

I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives…

— Damien Chazelle

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between…

— Peter Kropotkin

“Throughout history, the word "war" has meant one thing to human beings: loss of life. The word "peace" has always meant security…

— A.H. Metwally

“Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man…

— Leo Tolstoy

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

— Jeff Hawkins

My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor.…

— Neville Chamberlain

During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers but the robbers who have been in control of the…

— Scott Nearing

One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep…

— John Jay Chapman

There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that…

— Todd Haynes

Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to…

— Steven Pinker

“Our prison population, in fact, is now the biggest in the history of human civilization. There are more people in the United…

— Matt Taibbi

The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just…

— Charles S. Maier

Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting,…

— Criss Jami

If you make history with God, He'll make history with you

— Bill Johnson

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Hollywood has a long, storied and often problematic history of political protest movements.

— S.E. Cupp

I went up a weight class and took off the head of the greatest lightweight in history.

— Patricio Freire

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

— Duke of Wellington

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

— Anonymous

I've loved boxing due to the history of boxing. It was one of the great American pastimes.

— Keith Thurman

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

— George Eliot

Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

— Thomas Sowell

I like classicism. I like historic reference. I like something new with something almost ancient.

— Rick Owens

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”

— Joseph Schumpeter

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.

— John McCain

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

— Alice Walker

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

— Roy DeCarava