History Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt Download Open image “World history is tragic.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Tragic World World history
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“...he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to call them… — Friedrich Dürrenmatt Copy Share Image
People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and,… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men. — Friedrich Durrenmatt 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
