History Quotes - Page 21

History paints the human heart.

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread unemployment, though these naturally contributed to the atmosphere of doom, but because the Weimar Right was resolved to abolish the parliamentary state in favour of a vaguely conceived authoritarian state.

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

Where the women go, the culture goes.