History Quotes · Page 181

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

— Malala Yousafzai

Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

— Ben Bernanke

As a child, I had loved history because it showed so many alternative worlds.

— Margaret MacMillan

The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.

— Jerry Falwell

“ghosts. He had learned a little of the history of Halyn House”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

We are proud of the Lakers, proud to be a part of the organization's history.

— George Mikan

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

— Immortal Technique

Puerto Rico is complicated. The people are complicated. The history is complicated. The story of the United States' relationship to Puerto Rico…

— W. Kamau Bell

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

— Michael Schur

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's…

— Howard Hodgkin

But the BBC has made a big push to get women historians such as Amanda Vickery, Mary Beard and Bettany Hughes on…

— Lucy Worsley

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

— Allen Ginsberg

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for…

— David Vitter

Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two…

— Gary Krist

“That you are a born again Christian does not mean you will automatically succeed except you follow God's principles. Never forget faith…

— Patience Johnson

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations…

— Ralph Snyderman

“It is a curious thing that at my age — fifty-five last birthday — I should find myself taking up a pen…

— H. Rider Haggard

“The historical truth is a fiction. OK, I did whatever I could to find out what happened from surviving friends, family and…

— William Pryor

“History has been witness to heart wrenching barbaric violations from time immemorial throughout the world where battles and wars have been fought,…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds…

— Aleksandra Mir

The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their…

— Tom Devine

The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none;…

— Mary Anne Radmacher

History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.

— Frederic Harrison

Instead of a priority, you made me an option. So now youre history, lost and forgotten.

— Laine

Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.

— Janelle Monae

Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down.

— Michael Moore

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

— John Rzeznik

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

— George R. R. Martin

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

— Joseph Goebbels

“There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.”

— Jodi Picoult

“I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history.”

— J.C. Ryle

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

— Jimmy Haslam

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

— John Moody

I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

— Donna Tartt

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

— Stephane Hessel

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

— Alfred de Vigny

Shortest horror story in history: Tomorrow is Monday.

— Anonymous

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt