History Quotes - Page 46

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

I don't know anything about the history of music.

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.

One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

There is properly no history, only biography.

Language is the archives of history.

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

It is magnificent, but it is not war.

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.