One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. — Zhou Enlai Copy Share Image
“War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.” — Federico Gamboa Copy Share Image
Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one canI have worked with… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The advance of knowledge deludes us into thinking we are different from other animals, but our history shows that we are not.” — John N. Gray Copy Share Image
“Don’t carry the world around or your history around like a burden. In fact, don’t carry it around at all. One step… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
Our country vanished from the map of Europe after the attack of the Soviet Union against Poland. That is our history. It… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
“At this point, I see the unfortunate recipient of this impromptu history lecture begin to doze and I move on to my… — Tom Parker Bowles Copy Share Image
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The idea of getting old and dying, falling apart, does not sound fun at all to me, but it's an observation that… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“All cultures in human history have believed in God and an afterlife in eternity. There is an interesting story told about the… — Grant R. Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“The real reason for Father Braganza's laughter was the history of Amrapur. It was a quaint town, nestled amidst barren mountains. The… — Rohit Gore Copy Share Image
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
My goal is to become the best person I can, and in the process of doing so, I believe, I can help… — Dominick Cruz Copy Share Image
“Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image