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History Quotes - random


David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.
Alberto Manguel
A book brings its own history to the reader.
Richard Dawkins
Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.




Edmund Cooper
Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.
Edward Said
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
Frank Zappa | History Quotes
The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic ... in terms of music history.
Subhash Kak
History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Kenneth Waltz
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
Lloyd deMause
It is no wonder that historians have chosen to hide, deny and whitewash the record here uncovered.
Kim Stanley Robinson | History Quotes
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.




James Joyce
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Tommy Lee
I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.
Jacques Barzun
I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.
Lajos Kossuth
History is the revelation of providence.
Sir Thomas Browne | History Quotes
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
Mark Riebling
The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.
John Acton (Lord Acton)
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
James A. Garfield
The lesson of History is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
Marcus Aurelius
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.


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