History Quotes · Page 95

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

— Fidel Castro

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

— John Webster

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.

— Antony Beevor

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

— Nouriel Roubini

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

— Carl Sagan

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

— John Hope Franklin

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

— Junot Diaz

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every…

— George Saintsbury

History is filled with examples of players moving between rival clubs and I can't rule out clubs due to where I might…

— Nicklas Bendtner

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite…

— Alan Brennert

So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat…

— K. Pattabhi Jois

The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most…

— Shulamith Firestone

“When you're writing historical fiction, you are always looking for the untold story. You're looking for what has been repressed politically, or…

— Hilary Mantel

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the…

— Javier Cazañ

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

— Leo Tolstoy

We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you…

— James Dickey

I think that the best movies are made, not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's…

— Harrison Ford

Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This…

— William Lane Craig

If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one…

— Esther Earl

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington…

— Marco Rubio

“You’re the first girl I’ve ever noticed and the last girl I’ll ever notice. My first kiss was the greatest first kiss…

— Alison G. Bailey

“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear…

— Walt Whitman

Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a…

— Gough Whitlam

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

— Julianne Malveaux

I like to be the winner; I like to change. I like to make history.

— Samir Nasri

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

— Peter Zumthor

I'm the best goal-scorer in the history of the African Cup.

— Samuel Eto'o

If you want to learn about the history of a people, eat their food and drink their beverages.

— Clemantine Wamariya

If you look at the history of wrestling, what makes heels great is their ridiculous statements.

— Tyrus

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

— Benedetto Croce

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.

— Susannah Cahalan

“I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.”

— Winston Churchill

“The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.”

— Jessie Burton

“History does repeat itself, but must it do so so frequently?”

— Gordon G. Chang

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

— James Ellroy

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

— Edward Said

The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature.

— Arthur D. Hlavaty

I always wanted to write a page of history with PSG.

— Angel Di Maria

“If young people do not begin to make history, politicians and inevitability will destroy it.”

— Timothy Snyder