History Quote by Shashi Tharoor Download Open image ““One cannot take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge”” — Shashi Tharoor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Revenge
“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“... History sometimes does know revenge, a sort of voluptuous and delayed justice, but chooses strange forms for it and unexpected executors of its will.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“One person's actions can alter the course of history, and a political or military mischance can touch off a catastrophic reaction that has repercussions… — Timothy Venning Copy Share Image
“Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.” — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“six decades of Independence have wrought significant change, as exposure to British practices has faded and India’s natural boisterousness has reasserted itself. Some of… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“control. The people’s character is deliberately debased, their mind is denationalized and perpetually kept in ignorance and fed with stories of England’s greatness and… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power:… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“On election days, the burdens of poverty and corruption and of a creaky economic system are put aside, and India celebrates. Many voters dress… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal. But I seek nothing from history—only an account of itself.” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form of widespread… — Shashi Tharoor 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… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
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… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
