In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all. — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!” — E.A. Bucchianeri 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
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
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly. — Billie Joe Armstrong 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
“We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.” — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history?… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no… — Viktor Orban Copy Share Image
Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival… — David Helvarg Copy Share Image
“If somebody is telling you there is one history, one people & one version of events, you should consider what side of… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Von Trotha said, “The Wahehe are a tribe of about one quarter of a million people! On the 17th of August 1891,… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“We in the West are the first generation in human history in which the mass of the population has to deliberately exercise… — David B. Agus Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Narrow-minded historians will say there's no proof that [Meriwether] Lewis was dude-loving. Another telling indication was that his Newfoundland dog was named… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
“Yet in the 1950s and '60s, a wide range of historians quickly and uncritically...[sought to] rule out of serious discussion of the… — William Hogeland Copy Share Image
There is a tragic kind of joke. You really can't keep a man down - good but often otherwise - because history's… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."]. — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
History says that I'm one of the best pound-for-pound, and I won't stop until I'm number one. — Sergio Martinez Copy Share Image
I hope to make history at the club and become one of the great heroes of Manchester City. — Robinho Copy Share Image
Every home is a history. A place where family live and grow together until finally being apart. — Reny Copy Share Image
“History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
If all of our future plans becomesuccessful, then the word death will become history. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media. — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself. — Mae West Copy Share Image
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