History Quotes · Page 196

“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.”

— Michelle Richmond

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

— Walter Wink

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

— Anonymous

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

— Benito Mussolini

Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history.

— Robin Sharma

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

— Frank Rich

At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.

— Ava DuVernay

“i have learnt a lot from diversity and i will always make sure the history does not repeat itself”

— augelicht

Before I even agreed to work with Hennessy and the Privilege Awards, I wanted to do some research on it, look up…

— Troy Carter

“History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is…

— Sara Sheridan

“[T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to…

— Robin Briggs

Uruguay is a small country but with a lot of football history. We've won so many things, and so the people are…

— Diego Forlan

“The story would be told many times in American history: Black property legally or illegally seized; the resulting Black destitution blamed on…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“What is fact? What records did the church, in its misguided attempt to cleanse the past of perceived contradictions, rewrite to suit…

— Brandon Sanderson

Hillary Clinton has secured her place in history. She is the first woman to lead a major party's quest for the presidency.

— Ari Shapiro

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime,…

— John Edgar Wideman

“Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you're an inconsequential worm in the grand scope…

— John Scalzi

“He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from,…

— Leanna Renee Hieber

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“The US military and the CIA got busy working on plans for the conquest of Cuba. And it would be no Mickey…

— Mal Peet

There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us…

— Eric McCormack

Anglo-Saxons have a view that history is ordered and chronological, and I think that fed into the development of the realist middle-class…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“If you are someone who knows the dark days of your country's history very well, you should definitely take part in the…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public…

— John le Carre

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

— Mason Cooley

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

— Thomas Jefferson

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

— Anatole Broyard

“Godless, 'we had no war.' Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

— Seth Klarman

I have always been fascinated by the story of Henrietta Lacks.

— Adam Curtis

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.”

— George Orwell

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

— Hilary Mantel

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen.

— Anonymous

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”

— Edmund Burke

If all of our future plans becomesuccessful, then the word death will become history.

— Mak_786

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

— Henry David Thoreau

“History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage.”

— James S.A. Corey

Every home is a history. A place where family live and grow together until finally being apart.

— Reny