History Quotes · Page 180

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

— Robert Walpole

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

— Anwar Sadat

“Those who don't know their history are defenseless against those determined to repeat it.”

— Ray A. Davis

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

— Warren Littlefield

I love 'Frontline.' It's the best TV show in the history of television.

— Neal Brennan

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

— Alija Izetbegovic

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

— Scott Westerfeld

“If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself, in every points”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“You’ve probably played that parlor game in which you fantasize about what it would be like to have a drink with one…

— Robert Wachter

The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic…

— Derek Walcott

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

— Thomas Ligotti

I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture…

— Mark Foster

Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant…

— Debby Applegate

“Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil…

— Jose Saramago

Oh man, I would love to fight Evander Holyfield. I don't think any of the other great heavyweights fought four times -…

— Riddick Bowe

If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry,…

— Meat Loaf

What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a…

— Karl Hess

“That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because…

— Victor Hugo

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people…

— John Green

If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves;…

— Lauren Jauregui

“Hoover and Mellon did more than history gives them credit for (i.e., they did more than absolutely nothing) and it’s never been…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it;…

— Michael Berryman

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of…

— Joichi Ito

“Third, though oppression to the level of ‘being thrown in jail’ for one’s Christian faith may not yet be apparent in the…

— John Price

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

— Ma Jian

I Born To Create History, Not to Read it. I Born to Get Success, Not to Clap for Others.

— Chakshu Aggarwal

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

“We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.

— Moshe Safdie

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

— Paul Valery

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

— Henry James

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

— William Pfaff

If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.

— Michael Corleone

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

— George Bernard Shaw

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

— Jean Baudrillard

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.

— Nelson Mandela

“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”

— George Orwell

I get really into research. I know people say that, but I'm really into research.

— Michael Pitt

“Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy”

— Evan Thomas