History Quotes

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them" "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." "You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own." "History is written by the winners." "History is a set of lies agreed upon." "Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions." "Ultimately, the downfall of the Freemasons was giving away their stonecutting services for nothing." "Ancient Greece had it all & then committed suicide. Nobody digs your grave better than yourself." "If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic -- being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have be" "Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe." "There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare." "I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. " "Study the past, if you would divine the future." "From the written word to sailing vessels, technology increases interconnectedness, helping to boost its own flow and spread. Each wave hence lays the groundwork for successive waves" "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." "All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed—only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle." "There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made." "We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience" "History has shown there are no invincible armies. "