“It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.” — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way,… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to say that we're facing or looking at a likely repeat of history. It would be great if we… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“The workers stayed in the plant instead of walking out, and this had clear advantages: they were directly blocking the use of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you sit down to write a limerick, you find yourself straddling two histories: the history of the limerick form itself, which… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
In the wild enthusiasm of youth, you have a right to break someone's heart,break someone's sentiment or even molest a girl. One… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Most labor historians today agree that craft unions created an aristocracy of skilled workers at the expense of the unskilled and semiskilled… — Philip S. Foner Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“What’s past is prologue. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Don’t bother me with all that history crap. It just gets in the way… — Anthony Grey Copy Share Image
I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests. — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
No self-respecting country - especially one with our clout and proud history - should sign up to a proposal that surrenders the… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
“When the destiny of a nation is in a woman’s bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. —… — Eleanor Herman Copy Share Image
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We all know that history cannot be undone. But let me assure you that we Austrians know that, because of our history,… — Sebastian Kurz Copy Share Image
We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses. — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history… — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“(So T. S. Eliot’s helpful reminder from “Gerontion”: “History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors / And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,… — Mark S. Smith Copy Share Image
This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication. — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its… — William Barr Copy Share Image
