History Quote by Bobby Adair Download Open image ““History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.”” — Bobby Adair ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Victim Victory War
“The history of humanity is, to a very great extent, a history of violence.” — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
“history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true. We only hear the stories the victor wants told. The remaining stories, the… — H.K. Savage Copy Share Image
“There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“No victory, no conquest justified a single death, a man starved, frozen, lacerated, a single orphaned child. All war wanted was itself.” — Willy Peter Reese Copy Share Image
“Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the nation, had… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.” — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“Man is a predatory animal. He lives by eating other animals and he enriches himself by stealing that which belongs to his neighbor. Hence… — Hendrick van Loon Copy Share Image
“Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“History is initially written by the victors who survived until being rewritten by the vanquished who survived longer.” — Michael William Cook Copy Share Image
“A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.” — Julien Gracq Copy Share Image
“The upper middle-class cracker neighborhood ignored me, focused instead on its own pockets of human chaos. Four” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“Once people get beliefs into their heads, it’s fucking hard to change their minds, no matter how many facts come knocking on the door.… — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“The shop was a monument to uninhibited human depravity, the kind that scars souls with permanent shadows. I” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“Sure, shit happens we can’t control, but that’s exactly what it is: shit you can’t control. You can’t control what it is, or sometimes… — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“made his words something of a Rorschach test, and I might be reading too many of my own emotions into it. ” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“I went into the living room and looked down at my mother’s torn body and shook my head. It was surreal. I guess some… — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“I’m your nightmare.” I loved that thought. It tantalized me with its power.” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“gazed blankly at nothing in particular. I knew that look. They were the Russells of the group.” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
