Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history. — Sacha Dhawan Copy Share Image
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Security was the demand which set in motion labour movements in history; trade unions, friendly societies, consumer cooperatives were all about compensating… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Popular music is not history, but it can be read historically, dialogically, and symptomatically to produce valuable evidence about change over time.… — George Lipsitz Copy Share Image
“He couldn't drive the horror of cannibalism from his brain, just as he couldn't wholly suppress a simple observation that seemed to… — Monte Reel Copy Share Image
Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
“Love has been many things throughout history: the simple comfort of the familiar, having a person to know and being known by… — Annette Gordon-Reed Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the cause of our contemporary pessimism is our tendency to view history as a turbulent stream of conflicts – between individuals… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through… — Wael Ghonim Copy Share Image
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all.” — Anne Burack Sayre Copy Share Image
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Most often in history it was the conquerors who learned willingly from the conquered.” — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.' — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
