History Quote by Marcus Sakey

“I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers.…

— S.C. Parris

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

“How much wreckage and destruction justifies the creation of a better world?”

— Julie Bertagna

“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries”

— Benjamin Franklin

“The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind.”

— Richard Llewellyn

“History is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants of all respectable, moderately thievish and selfish people, that is, of everyone.…

— Karel Čapek

“no one has ever built them before in written history. (But much of history is unwritten. Remember this.)”

— N.K. Jemisin

“Is the destruction not, rather, irrefutable proof that the catastrophes which develop, so to speak, in our hands and seem to break out suddenly…

— W.G. Sebald

“History is the hallmark of humanity.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much.”

— Ted Dekker

“History is a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.”

— John Edgell

“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.”

— Holderlin