Quotes about History

“If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.”

“There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.”

“As mayor, I made decisions I never thought I'd have to make: to close schools; pause construction; turn our convention center into a field hospital; and cancel the Boston Marathon for the first time in its history.”

“History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”

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

“Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.”

“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”

“The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years.”

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.”

“The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fading as a force for good, and this does not seem to be a good trend.”

“Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.”

“Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.”

“My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.”

“As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.”

“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”

“I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.”

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

“Everybody's past and history informs them.”

“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.”