History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
‐‐ Gary Ross
History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
‐‐ Ed Royce
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
‐‐ Sarah Vowell
History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
‐‐ Jill Lepore
History is history.
‐‐ Troy Vincent
History is history. What is done is done.
‐‐ Sister Souljah
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
‐‐ Tansy Rayner Roberts
History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
‐‐ Zara Larsson
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
‐‐ Marc Bloch
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
‐‐ Edward Gibbon
History is information. Memory is part of your identity.
‐‐ David Miliband
History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
‐‐ Paul Wolfowitz
History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.
‐‐ Terence McKenna
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
‐‐ Samantha Power
History is like a constantly changing tree.
‐‐ David Irving
History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.
‐‐ Alvaro Enrigue
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
‐‐ Enoch Powell
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
‐‐ Edward Gibbon
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
‐‐ Adora Svitak
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
‐‐ Ken Burns
History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler
History is more interesting than most people think.
‐‐ Tansy Rayner Roberts
History is more interesting than politics.
‐‐ Lennart Meri
History is more or less bunk.
‐‐ Henry Ford
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler
History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the more it has to be leavened with a sensual, all-consuming love story.
‐‐ Virginia Henley
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
‐‐ Lord Acton
History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
‐‐ Tansy Rayner Roberts
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke
History is not hatred.
‐‐ Malcolm X
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
‐‐ Dick Cavett
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
‐‐ Gore Vidal
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.
‐‐ Graydon Carter
History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
‐‐ Jay Parini
History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.
‐‐ Josh Fox
History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your sources. In history, it's what you write, not what your credentials are.
‐‐ George Dyson
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov
History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.
‐‐ Ridley Scott
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
‐‐ Voltaire
History is only written from what remains.
‐‐ Jill Lepore
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
‐‐ Thucydides
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.
‐‐ Paul Auster
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
‐‐ Sarah Churchwell
History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.
‐‐ Tavis Smiley
History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
‐‐ Robert Smithson