History Quotes · Page 172

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

— Blackie Sherrod

Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.

— Robert F. Williams

“The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.”

— Derek Thompson

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

— Antonia Fraser

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

— Xavi

We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet.

— Sarah Addison Allen

Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination.

— Henry Giroux

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

— Mason Cooley

A large part of running for president is intense scrutiny on personal history and political records. But once you're in office, that…

— Jamelle Bouie

There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do…

— Marie Colvin

“Work toward a great legacy. One that is filled with a history of victory. Remember, the seeds you plant today will bloom…

— Gift Gugu Mona

“That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy…

— Edward St. Aubyn

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

“Paris is pregnant with layers of history, colored with the ink of artists who dared to dream of a world only they…

— Kimberly Kinrade

I knew from history that war comes with frightening regularity, often fought over the same ground and similar causes as previous conflicts.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold…

— Charles Stross

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology…

— Indira Gandhi

“How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop…

— Steve Maraboli

For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of…

— William Kristol

My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually…

— Cary Fukunaga

My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or…

— Michael Moritz

In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of…

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

“More important, Los Angeles has seen in this century the greatest concentration of fantasy-production, as an industry and as an institution, in…

— Reyner Banham

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

— C. S. Lewis

A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

— Mason Cooley

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

— George Bernard Shaw

The truth, the real history, is way more interesting and representative of what America actually is.

— Rhiannon Giddens

Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.

— Bernard Hopkins

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

— Norman Mailer

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

— C. V. Wedgwood

“History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.”

— Donald Cameron Watt

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

— Ralph Nader

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

— Margaret Thatcher

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

— John Maynard Smith

There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.

— Philibert Orry

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

— Ayn Rand

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

— Paul Wolfowitz