History Quotes · Page 6

History is not hatred.

— Malcolm X

World history is tragic.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Freedom has no history.

— Andrew Cohen

I want to make history.

— Rhea Ripley

Poetry is devil's wine.

— Saint Augustine

“History is fiction.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

You're history now

— Lafee

“Remove yourself, sir!”

— David McCullough

“I like fiction and the history...Great!”

— Anonymous

History works itself out in the living.

— Louise Erdrich

“I began with the desire to speak with the dead.”

— Stephen Greenblatt

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

— Thomas Carlyle

“[...] no man is free of his own history.”

— Anita Brookner

“Every age has its darkness…”

— Liz Braswell

I find I like it too much.

— Stonewall Jackson

History belongs to the intercessors

— Walter Wink

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

— Robert Tew

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

— Pablo Picasso

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

— Winston S. Churchill

I wrote my first history book when I was four. I still have it so I can prove it.

— Bettany Hughes

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

— Steven Levy

As a historian, I always think you know what a moment was 20 years later.

— David Olusoga

Hoosiers are practical people, and Hoosier Republicans in particular have a history of unifying.

— Todd Young

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

— Edward Gibbon

Psy is fantastic. He's shifted the planet. He's got the whole world dancing. And it's a rarity in this world. Only four…

— MC Hammer

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

No other powerful public figure in the history of American media has controlled his narrative as effectively as David Stern.

— Jason Whitlock

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

— Eric Liu

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

— K.P. Yohannan

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

— David Brooks

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only…

— Félix J. Palma

I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

— Raha Moharrak

Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I…

— George Washington

“The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other…

— Gilles Deleuze

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody…

— Michael Dirda

“History does show that nothing means a hell of a lot more than nothing when teenagers talk. In this case, Robby knew…

— Andrew Smith

“Throughout history, he adds, the dominant castes that were ‘most successful in their attempt at conquering power managed to be recognized as…

— Namit Arora

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored…

— Gloria Steinem

These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced.…

— Joel Bakan