Destroyed Quote by William Mackergo Taylor

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

— Ralph Nader

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

— Edward Gibbon

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 history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power,…

— George Schaller

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

— Walter Bagehot

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

— Alice Walker

History is not what happened but what is written down

— Kathleen McGowan

If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only…

— Robert Bringhurst

“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of…

— Patricia Hampl

[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience…

— Edward Gibbon

“The reign of imagology begins where history ends”

— Milan Kundera