All Quotes

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
‐‐ Lin-Manuel Miranda

History is the best guide to the future.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
‐‐ Augustine Birrell

History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
‐‐ Mal Peet

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
‐‐ Amy Waldman

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
‐‐ Johan Huizinga

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.
‐‐ Eva Herzigova

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
‐‐ Rosa Luxemburg

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

History is the science of things which are not repeated.
‐‐ Paul Valery

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
‐‐ Cotton Mather

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
‐‐ Konrad Adenauer

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
‐‐ Paul Eldridge

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
‐‐ Robert Harris

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
‐‐ Roger Rees

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
‐‐ John le Carre

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
‐‐ David Weinberger

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
‐‐ Mahmoud Darwish

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
‐‐ Fernand Braudel

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

History never looks like history when you are living through it.
‐‐ John W. Gardner

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
‐‐ Eduardo Galeano

History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo, 1914; the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, 1938. But equally relevant might be the tragically meaningless guarantees Britain extended to Poland in 1939.
‐‐ Alistair Horne

History never repeats itself in the same way.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
‐‐ Arnold J. Toynbee

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
‐‐ Phyllis Schlafly

History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.
‐‐ Jim Murphy

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
‐‐ Benjamin N. Cardozo

History passes the final judgment.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
‐‐ Irving Langmuir

History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.
‐‐ Michel Faber

History proves that the white man is a devil.
‐‐ Malcolm X

History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.
‐‐ Elizabeth Coleman

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
‐‐ Jim Leach

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.
‐‐ David Souter

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
‐‐ John Acton

History provides no precise guidelines.
‐‐ Douglas Hurd

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
‐‐ Jennifer Gilmore

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki