Top 465 History Quotes

The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.

Karyn Parsons

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Pankaj Mishra

I want to go down in history.

I want to go down in history.

Haile Gebrselassie

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

Henry Rollins

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

James Ellroy

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Herman Cain

If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.

If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.

David L. Wolper

In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.

In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.

James Henry Breasted

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

Jonah Goldberg

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