History Quotes

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." "History is written by the winners." "Study the past, if you would divine the future." "I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. " "There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare." "Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe." "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" "Ancient Greece had it all & then committed suicide. Nobody digs your grave better than yourself." "Ultimately, the downfall of the Freemasons was giving away their stonecutting services for nothing." "Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions." "History is a set of lies agreed upon." "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" "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." "This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning." "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them" "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman" "I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it." "Religion is the opium of the masses."