Top 1000 History Quotes & Sayings

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

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

When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults.

I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.

History is about great forces, yes, but also about contingency.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

My introduction to art history was like everybody else's. You see an art history book that has works by Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yes, these things are great. But I don't see a reflection of myself in any of these things I'm looking at.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.

Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history.

An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Of course there's racism in this country, and we have a terrible history of that in this nation.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

I truly do believe that history teaches that weakness arouses evil, and whether it be the horrific attack in France, the inspired attacks here in the United States, the instability in Turkey that led to a coup.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

I like American history.

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I'm on the right path.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

As Africans Americans we often think about the tragic stories associated with our lineage, but there are a lot of triumphs. Traveling helps you learn about other aspects of our history, like the story of Christ the Redeemer. It's empowering and inspiring.

If, like me, you're interested in history, Egypt is a place of wonders. It's the land of many civilisations, including Greek, Roman, Christian, and Muslim.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

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