History Quotes

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

Sean Parker

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

Voltaire

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

Bobby Flay

I told him I think my wife has V.D. he gave himself a shot of penicillin

Rodney Dangerfield

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

Edward de Bono

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Daisaku Ikeda

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

Camille Paglia

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Tom Hayden

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Theodor Adorno

World history is a court of judgment.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

Oscar Wilde

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

Keith O'Brien

History is merely a list of surprises.... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.

Kurt Vonnegut

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Kofi Annan

She was so ugly that she has a face like a boiled boot and a tongue long enough to lace it up.

Rodney Dangerfield

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

Tim Vine

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.

Stephen Harper

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Gertrude Stein

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

Robert Menzies