Application Quote by Walter Raleigh

“We shall not understand the history of men and of other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied,…

— Benedetto Croce

“Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice,…

— Don DeLillo

“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

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

— Benedetto Croce

“Don't waste time defending your intentions. History will judge you by the outcomes of your actions”

— Savania China

“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --”

— Abba Eban

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

“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

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under…

— Lionel Trilling

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

“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.”

— Alan Beattie

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago