History Quote by Anne Rice

“Nothing in the study of history is cheaper than the exercise of unearned self-righteousness that derives from nothing more virtuous than ordinary hindsight.”

— Edwin Yoder

“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --”

— Abba Eban

“Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem for…

— Gyan Nagpal

“History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should you not…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in…

— Shashi Tharoor

“If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.”

— Henry Kissinger

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush…

— Vasily Grossman

“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within…

— Henry David Thoreau

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses…

— Friedrich Engels

“History reminds us of the inherent weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow human beings are capable of…

— John Fea