History Quotes - Page 24

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

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

We cannot escape history.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

History is not was, it is.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.