Quotes about History, page 6

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part...

Quote by John Perkins about history

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about history

Historian a broad-gauge gossip.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about history

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about history

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

Quote by William Faulkner about history

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history

Quote by Kylie Minogue about history

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about history

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau about history

World history is a court of judgment.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about history

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony, periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about history

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about history

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est- this is the supreme practical maxim, this the turning point of the world's History.

Quote by Ludwig Feuerbach about history

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity

Quote by Simon Wiesenthal about history

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Quote by Simon Wiesenthal about history

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

Quote by Charles Percy Snow about history

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Quote by Martin Luther about history

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Quote by Pierre Bayle about history

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The shame is true of man.

Quote by Jean Genet about history

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about history

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Quote by Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre about history