Against Quote by Tariq Ramadan

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

— Wole Soyinka

There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward…

— George W. Bush

History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human…

— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

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

I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop…

— Desmond Tutu

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

— Helen Keller

There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have… History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the…

— Michel Foucault

And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use…

— George Orwell

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes

— Voltaire

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

— Meridel Le Sueur

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no…

— Reinhold Niebuhr