History Quotes

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians" "History is written by the winners." "Consider that children who grew up traveling by horse and cart and burning wood for heat in the late nineteenth century spent their final days traveling by airplane and living in houses warmed by the splitting of the atom" "Religion is the opium of the masses." "I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it." "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman" "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" "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" "This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning." "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 will be kind to me for I intend to write it." "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. "