History Quote by Jeremy Limn

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

— Julian Barnes

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

— Anne Michaels

Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we…

— Dalai Lama

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

History has been the history of warfare.

— Godfrey Reggio

The history of mankind is a history of war.

— Mike Love

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

— Sarah Vowell

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

— Anton Chekhov

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

— Penelope Lively

History can just be so unkind as time passes.

— Joshua Henry