“The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“That, being as blunt as I can, is my approach to the history of the United States.” — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all. — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“History is written by the victors,’ she said, ‘but the truth has a way of revealing itself.” — Sebastien de Castell Copy Share Image
“... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Who does not have a slaughter in their conscience? Man's history is just an endless list of atrocities and we're not through… — Matz Copy Share Image
Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future. — Louise Bernikow Copy Share Image
I'd be happy if I was part of a Liverpool side that kept winning titles, cups, and made history. I just want… — Philippe Coutinho Copy Share Image
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record,… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
At this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary defeat ;… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers… — Manfred Rommel Copy Share Image
“Sisters share a bond that no one can explain. They understand each other in a way not even girl friends can approach.… — Juli Caldwell Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“How would it be," she asked them coldly as they left the classroom [Prof Binns, History subject], "if I refused to lend… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.” — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The greatest of all historical shams is believing you can not do something you can.” — Erik Petersen - Love and Rage Copy Share Image
History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions. — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Oblivion has always been the most trustworthy guardian of classified files.” — Lee Sandlin Copy Share Image