History Quotes

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

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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

I've always been interested in all sorts of things. Art, physics, history, philosophy, math -- they're all interesting. Making games just seems like a way to bring all these seemingly unrelated things together.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Black history is American history.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.

In her own simple way, Rosa Parks changed the history of our nation. She forced us to recognize the dignity of every person. She was a prophet -- a common instrument of God inviting us and challenging us to a new vision of solidarity, equality and justice. We were blessed to have her as citizen of Detroit.

The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Don't make excuses. Make things happen. Make changes. Then make history.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

History and social science is a difficult area because it is not just an academic content area but an issue that reflects how people view themselves and so tends to get more emotional.

History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens.

Let's go make some history.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.