History Quotes - Page 13

Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.

Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

History is the zoology of the human race.

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.