951 private quotes tagged history

“The history of the world is the world's court of justice.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The history of art is the history of revivals.” — Samuel Butler

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“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“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.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.” — Walt Whitman

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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.” — George Eliot

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“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.” — Karl Marx

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“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?” — Jackie Kennedy

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“History is a race between education and catastrophe.” — H. G. Wells

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“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.” — John F. Kennedy

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“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.” — Pablo Picasso

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“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” — Charles Darwin

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“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.” — Martin Luther

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“In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.” — Alan Watts

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“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” — Ayn Rand

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“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 D. Roosevelt

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“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.” — George Eliot

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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” — Plato

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“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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