History Quotes

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

Our history is not our destiny.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.