Biting Quote by William Greider

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

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs…

— Carl Sagan

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is…

— David Means

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the…

— Lord Acton

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Terence McKenna

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

— Johann Gustav Droysen

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be…

— John F. Kennedy

“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

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

— Martin Heidegger

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

— Robert Higgs