History Quote by Henry Kissinger Download Open image “History knows no resting place and no plateaus” — Henry Kissinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
History never embraces more than a small part of reality — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share
“New methods of accessing and communicating information unite regions as never before and project events globally—but in a manner that inhibits reflection, demanding of… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Like the United States, China thought of itself as playing a special role. But it never espoused the American notion of universalism to spread… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises. — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“In the Chinese version of exceptionalism, China did not export its ideas but let others come to seek them.” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault — Henry Kissinger 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 will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
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 community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
