Quotes about history
history redeemer
We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer. Reinhold Niebuhr
history people complaining
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. W. H. Auden
history answers study
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
history honor pages
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. Washington Irving
history court gloss
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. William O. Douglas
history poetry poetic
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Yevgeny Yevtushenko