History Quotes - page 5

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. (Willa Cather)
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. View quote
Coretta Scott King
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. View quote
Woody Allen
This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history. View quote
Helen Thomas
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility - I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. View quote
Frances Burney
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. View quote
Marcus Garvey
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. View quote
Abba Eban
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Oscar Wilde)
Live out of your imagination, not your history. View quote
Stephen Covey
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say. View quote
Ralph Bakshi
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. View quote
Albert Camus
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. (Max Lerner)
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. View quote
Richard Feynman
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember, they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem. Over 25,000 organized religions flourish on this planet, but the followers of each think all the others are miserably misguided and probably evil as well. View quote
Frank Sinatra
Look at the history of the (United States). The history of the country is basically what? Get something for nothing, right? Take, kill. They invaded the country, they robbed the land of the American Indians, they killed almost all of them off... That's the history of the United States. A despicable country. View quote
Bobby Fischer
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. View quote
Anatole France