Quotes about History

“It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.”

“We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.”

“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.”

“I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.”

“The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.”

“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.”

“I am responsible only to God and history.”

“We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.”

“The history of the ticketing business was about barriers to entry, which kept Ticketmaster protected. That has changed.”

“If you forget your history, you forget who you are.”

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”

“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.”

“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”

“Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.”

“History is more or less bunk.”

“The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.”

“History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.”

“Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?”

“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”