History Quote by Otto von Bismarck

“We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics - in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations - is…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political science must…

— Aristotle

“Politics is the purview of scoundrels, tyrants, and fools.”

— Jim Butcher

“For politics is not just about things necessary and eternal, nor is it just a matter of good judgment in a given situation. It…

— Daniel Gross

“a better reading of history must bring home the truth that the basic factor in human affairs is not politics, but race.”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.”

— J. Christopher Herold

“My comments are historical in nature and are not overtly political, although politics are directly responsible for the outcome of History.”

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Matters of the world are dealt with more vigor and effectiveness when one views them as the right of nature instead of the superficiality…

— VD

“...that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.”

— Roland Barthes

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

— John Edgell

“Give me a scholar, therefore, who is able to think and to write, to look with an eye of discernment into things, and to…

— Lucian of Samosata