Brake Quote by N. T. Wright

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

— Terence McKenna

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

— Avery Brooks

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

While we read history we make history.

— George William Curtis

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

— David Christian

As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of…

— Opal Tometi

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and…

— Anonymous

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against…

— Anais Nin

I think history is just so cyclical.

— Alexandra Bracken

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

— Mason Cooley

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be…

— Raymond Williams