951 private quotes tagged history

“I think the materialist conception of history is valid.” — Christopher Hitchens

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

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

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

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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.” — H. G. Wells

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“I came, I saw, I conquered.” — Julius Caesar

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“History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” — Mark Twain

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“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.” — Voltaire

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

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“History, a distillation of rumour.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.” — Dalai Lama

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“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” — Edmund Burke

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“History will be kind to me; for I intend to write it.” — Winston Churchill

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

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“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.” — Karl Marx

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“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” — H. G. Wells

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“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Woz 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 Jobs

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