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Tag Name "History" (7061)

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History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
David Wojnarowicz
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History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.
Edward Gibbon
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History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.
Emilie Autumn
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History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.
Karl Marx
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History is more interesting than politics.
Lennart Meri
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
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History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.
Edward Gibbon
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History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
G. M. Trevelyan
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History respects revolutions and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it if it is reactionary, resist it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.
Edward Gibbon
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History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.
Orson Scott Card
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History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
Amy Waldman
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History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.
Karl Marx
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.
Edward Hallett Carr
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History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
Edmund Snow Carpenter
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History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
George W. Bush
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History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
Henry A. Kissinger
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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
A. J. P. Taylor
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
Leo Tolstoy
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History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
Nancy Pickard
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History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
Henry Adams
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
A. J. P. Taylor
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