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History Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
- The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine…
- The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
- Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
- Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead story unless that…
- One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could…
- What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,”…
- Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
- History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to…
- Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
- Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,…
- A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
- The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical…
- There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit…
- The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn.…
- ...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why…
- Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then —…
- Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the…
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough