History Quotes

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly, no matter what - I believe that we're going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.

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.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

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

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

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.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.