History Quotes

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

World history is a court of judgment.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.