History quotes

History, a distillation of rumour.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Whether 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.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

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

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

The 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.