Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evita Peron

Time is my greatest enemy.

Herbert Hoover

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

Henry Miller

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

George Eliot

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

James Bryce

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

James Gleick

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

Ella Baker

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

George William Curtis

While we read history we make history.

Jim Bishop

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

Jean Chretien

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

James A. Garfield

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

James A. Garfield

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

James A. Baldwin

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

Jacqueline Carey

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

Christopher Hitchens

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Christopher Hitchens

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

George Canning

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

George Santayana

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Meredith

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

G. Gordon Liddy

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

G. M. Trevelyan

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

Jennifer Stone

History repeats herself.

George W. Bush

Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

George Orwell

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

Fernand Braudel

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Fernand Braudel

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

Ezra Pound

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Gretel Ehrlich

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

Hugh Blair

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

Hannah Arendt

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

Guy de Maupassant

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.