History Quotes · Page 225

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

— Jennifer Egan

“What, I wonder, are the social consequences of life in a country that has no use for history?”

— Teju Cole

“Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.”

— Schopenhauer

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

— Ronald Wright

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

— Ian Harding

I study history because I am interested in the future.

— Peter Rachleff

To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.

— Harry S Truman

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of…

— Upton Sinclair

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.…

— Joshua Reynolds

The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of…

— Reuven Rivlin

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the…

— Howard Zinn

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

— Frederick Lenz

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap…

— Steve Stern

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates…

— Jacqueline Winspear

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

— Amin Maalouf

“One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question…

— Dava Sobel

“When history seems to offer no sanctuary for values (when history is assailed by wars and inhuman or immoral public actions), literature…

— Beatriz Sarlo

Beyond America's historical role as pioneers of human exploration, it is critical to understand space as a national security imperative. Just as…

— Michael Waltz

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is…

— Paul Sarbanes

People talk about Kobe's 81-point game, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history. I saw the game. I don't care if it…

— Jeff Van Gundy

If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people…

— Martin Luther

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had…

— Sheri S. Tepper

I am glad to be here to create a new history in our industry. I'm very proud of this.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

— Mark Shields

Dr. Dre is the most influential artist and producer in hip-hop history.

— Jalen Rose

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

— Anonymous

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

— Thomas Carlyle

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

— Anderson Cooper

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

— John Guare

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Ordinary people can do extraordinary things that can change the course of history.”

— Jonathan Dyer

“Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

— Muhammad Iqbal

“Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.”

— Janet Wallach

There's only one of you in the entire history of the world, and there will only ever be one of you.

— Elizabeth Smart

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

— Adolf von Harnack

American history is not history without Native history.

— Lily Gladstone