The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George OrwellYesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is God's gift that's why we call it the present.
Joan RiversWithout words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Herman HesseAll the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MoliereWell-behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher UlrichHistory is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose BierceWhen I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it - always.
Mahatma GandhiNo matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.
Paulo CoelhoFor most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia WoolfMore than any other time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody AllenHistory is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis de TocquevilleFrance and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny DeppA people without the knowledge of their past, history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus GarveyFor my part I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston ChurchillFor Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going, unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya AngelouBy failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Paul RyanHistory is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren't there.
George SantayanaThe history of free men is never really written by chance, but by choice, their choice!
Dwight D. EisenhowerI don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation, if the forces of history are running in another direction.
Richard M. NixonAmerican history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James Arthur BaldwinHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WellsI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas JeffersonHistory teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald ReaganHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. EisenhowerHistory is the devil's scripture
Lord ByronViolent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma GandhiBlood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin LutherIn this bright future you can't forget your past.
Bob MarleyHistory repeats itself first, as tragedy second as farce.
Karl MarxHistory is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. KennedyHistory should be written as philosophy.
VoltaireHistory does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Theodor W. AdornoFor the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. HumphreyHistory is written by the victors.
Winston ChurchillIn known history nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan WattsAmericans are rising to the tasks of history and they expect the same of us.
George W. BushHistory is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
VoltaireThe history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia WoolfHistory develops, art stands still.
E. M. ForsterStudy the past if you would divine the future.
ConfuciusYou can write me down in history with hateful twisted lies, you can tread me in this very dirt, but still like dust I'll rise.
Maya AngelouHegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard ShawEvery literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Mason CooleyGeography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. KennedyHistory takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude SteinI seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
John BurroughsA small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma GandhiPoetry is finer and more philosophical than history, for poetry expresses the universal and history only the particular.
AristotleHistory is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon BonaparteThe history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Franz KafkaA lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter ScottHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya AngelouHistory never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. GardnerAssassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin DisraeliHistory shows that there are no invincible armies.
Joseph StalinHistory is more or less bunk.
Henry FordAll History is current, all injustice continues on some level somewhere in the world.
Alice WalkerFor this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
AristotleBlack women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.
Maya AngelouFor the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret MeadHistory a distillation of rumour.
Thomas CarlyleHistories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander PopeBeware the Ides of March.
William ShakespearePassion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance, and art would be useless.
Honore de BalzacNeither a wise man, nor a brave man, lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. EisenhowerHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WellsAll humanity is passion, without passion religion, history, novels, art, would be ineffectual.
Honore de BalzacFrom their experience, or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous HuxleyDe Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Aldous HuxleySometimes - history needs a push.
Vladimir LeninHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon BonaparteHistory suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Milton FriedmanA woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington IrvingAnyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education, or of government, by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor RooseveltEurope was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret ThatcherNo humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
P. J. O'RourkeIf you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. LewisI believe that's one of the finest action regurgitation scenes in the history of literature ... I'd put it right up there.
Dave BarryI sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
George W. BushPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James Arthur BaldwinI'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it check the cash register.
Mike TysonAll human history attests, That happiness for man - the hungry sinner! Since Eve ate apples much depends on dinner.
Lord ByronWoz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve JobsWe live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Doug CouplandMen make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. TrumanThe Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Henry MillerHistory shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas CarlyleThose who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want, not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert CamusMy own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it and I don't think we should have done it.
Richard M. NixonIn the long history of humankind (and animal kind too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles DarwinIt is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl MarxLife isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history I think to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
Richard M. NixonHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WellsThe Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave BarryPresidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. JohnsonYeah I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history too.
Joan RiversWhat is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon BonaparteBut perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation the wonder of science scientific ways of thinking and the history of scientific ideas rather than laboratory experience.
Richard DawkinsI don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
Colin PowellEvery library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIf a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude SteinJudging from the main portions of the history of the world so far justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt WhitmanThe history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Karl MarxTo correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert CamusThe greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Richard M. NixonOne truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong it creates world history. If it is weak it suffers world history.
Albert SchweitzerThe writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece but he cannot of course create it.
Karl MarxWho has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl JungOur nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush LimbaughWell, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerReligions which condemn the pleasures of sense drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand RussellHistory books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole FranceBecoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.
Drew BarrymoreFor one who reads there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived for fiction biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world in all periods of time.
Louis L'AmourNothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history, therefore we must be saved by faith.
Reinhold NiebuhrI don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo PicassoThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous HuxleyNow there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
George W. BushNever throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore RooseveltI believe that history might be and ought to be taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
Thomas HuxleyYou should read history and look at ostracism persecution martyrdom and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men you know.
George EliotThere are still many causes worth sacrificing for so much history yet to be made.
Michelle ObamaThere is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Woodrow WilsonThe true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now and you and I will not be around to see it.
George W. BushWords when written crystallize history, their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past
Francis BaconIn our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents worried five of them to death impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'RourkeNo one can take the wealth of the world with him when he dies. This is a truth we have seen throughout the history of mankind.
Sai BabaIf history and science have taught us anything it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. WilsonHistory warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Thomas HuxleyWhat is history? An echo of the past in the future, a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor HugoRevolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl MarxNo event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. NixonService without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible.
Sai BabaThe soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.
Mitt RomneyIn the course of history men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich NietzscheThanks to television for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret MeadHistory will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and the same person
William BlakeThe whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.
Winston ChurchillWhether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
Hillary ClintonIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude SteinIt is the true office of history to represent the events themselves together with the counsels and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment
Francis BaconWe would like to live as we once lived but history will not permit it.
John F. KennedyLittle islands of human happiness peace and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
P. J. O'RourkeThere is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. TrumanIf history were taught in the form of stories it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard KiplingPersonally I would be delighted if there were a life after death especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl SaganOnce you get into this great stream of history you can't get out.
Richard M. NixonRome - the city of visible history where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George EliotNixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Harry S. TrumanMy reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas JeffersonIf history repeats itself and the unexpected always happens how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard ShawWe've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.
Barack ObamaIf we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPoetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars.
AristotlePsychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Mason CooleyToday for the first time in history a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land once a distant outpost of the pagan world has become through the preaching of the Gospel a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul IIThe world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly, more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Henry Ward BeecherRead no history: nothing but biography for that is life without theory.
Benjamin DisraeliIf past history was all there was to the game the richest people would be librarians
Warren BuffettThe slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose BiercePoetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history.
AristotleWe have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. KennedyWe have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land their culture their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Abdul KalamI often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert FrostYou that would judge me do not judge alone this book or that come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon, Ireland's history in their lineaments trace, think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler YeatsMost foreign policies that history has marked highly in whatever country have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
Henry A. KissingerI think really China Chinese I think they really have a long history of civilization rich culture.
Dalai LamaThe game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Eric HofferThere has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore RooseveltSo that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton FriedmanMan is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
John DeweyPeople who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOf all the species of literary composition perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed which is wanting in general history.
Robert HallI love doing normal things - movies shopping going out with friends writing reading taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
Christina AguileraWe wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
Paul RyanWe have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression, we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
Franklin Pierce AdamsStudy history study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston ChurchillTradition is an important help to history but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them
Joseph AddisonWe don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry FordIt is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man not his history.
Malcolm ForbesLiberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power not the increase of it.
Woodrow WilsonMankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history dating back to the time millions of years ago when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock tossed the rock into the air and whomped the club into the sl
Dave BarryThe history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel ButlerThose that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Winston ChurchillThe history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
William JamesThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George OrwellSkepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon BonaparteThis is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
Hillary ClintonThose of us who have gathered here... we owe something from this minute on so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history.
Maya AngelouSometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas JeffersonThe only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander to do.
David Herbert LawrenceKarate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Dave BarryIndeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
VoltaireOne of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
P. J. O'RourkeIt is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow WilsonThe history of the world is the record of the weakness frailty and death of public opinion.
Samuel ButlerIn its history Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
Desmond TutuWe are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson FDR and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But you know but when it comes to the economy we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
Barack ObamaIt is the true office of history to represent the events themselves together with the counsels and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
Francis BaconThe whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen HawkingI believe that's one of the finest action regurgitation scenes in the history of literature. I'd put it right up there.
Dave BarryMinimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
Chuck PalahniukThroughout human history the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
Paul RyanTell them from me they are unloading history.
Winston ChurchillThose who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund BurkeThings have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe history of the world is the world's court of justice.
Friedrich SchillerIt is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David ThoreauThe history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Woodrow WilsonIn the richest country in the history of the world this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4 000 but health insurance premiums are higher food prices are higher utility bills are higher and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Mitt RomneyOur ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave FlaubertHistory will be kind to me for I intend to write it
Winston ChurchillThe Balkans produce more history than they can consume
Winston ChurchillI want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president, the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack ObamaOne could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. HeinleinThe view of Jerusalem is the history of the world, it is more it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Benjamin DisraeliNo great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle