history quotes

“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”

“For 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 Churchill

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. ”

— Winston Churchill

“History is written by the victors. ”

— Winston Churchill

“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”

— Dean Acheson

“When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.”

— Arthur Hailey

“The 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 Hawking

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. ”

“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. ”

“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. ”

“It 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. ”

“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. ”

“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”

“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. ”

“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”

— Honore de Balzac

“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“All 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. ”

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

— Aldous Huxley

“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”

— Aldous Huxley

“From 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 Huxley

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”

— Victor Hugo

“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”

— Victor Hugo

“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. ”

— Franz Kafka

“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“I 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 Aguilera

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