History Quotes - random
Destiny and history are untidy.
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
I may go down in history as the guy who killed Pluto.
The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
Politics is history in the making.
Der Historiker ist ein rückwärtsgekehrter Prophet.
This sprawling epic is as lively as a natural history museum diorama.
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
History is neither written nor made without love or hate.
Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
[T]he great test [of history] has been decidedly against Marx and his theories of value and surplus value.
It is a considerable fact in the history of the world, that he was for four years King of England.
History is sympathetic to its authors.
History is not about who's right. It's about who's left.
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.
The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.
The world is historically mentally illiterate.