History Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten…America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak…

— Anonymous

“we need to stop asking the history of centuries past to vindicate our actions today. History is not a manifesto for action, a list…

— Sidin Vadukut

Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see…

— Pankaj Mishra

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs…

— Carl Sagan

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will…

— Anonymous

Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion…

— Victor Davis Hanson

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

— Marjorie Garber

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

— Lauren Groff

History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

— Pramila Jayapal

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against…

— Anais Nin