Deeds Quote by Dagobert D. Runes

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are…

— Simon Conway Morris

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

— Jeanette Winterson

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

— Emile M. Cioran

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory…

— Salman Rushdie

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

— Theodore Parker

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

— Lewis H. Lapham

History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

— Gerda Lerner

The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to…

— Howard Zinn