Frases sobre História

"History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything".
-- Paul VALERY.

"To observe the past is to take warning for the future".
-- LOPE DE VEGA.

"Tidas as épocas da História são iguais perante Deus".
-- Leopold VON RANKE.

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Happy is the nation without a history.
Author: Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria
Source: Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (introduction), (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment)
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
Author: Augustine Birrell
Source: Obiter Dicta--The Muse of History
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke
Source: On the Study and Use of History (letter 2)
The dignity of history.
Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke
Source: On the Study and Use of History (letter V)
What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 48)
And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 108)
All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: quoted in Froude's "Early Life of Carlyle"
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Cromwell's Letter and Speeches--Introduction (ch. I)
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--On History
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--On History
In a certain sense all men are historians.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--On History
History, a distillation of rumor.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: French Revolution (pt. I, bk. VII, ch. V)
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Latter Day Pamphlets (405)
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Life of Frederick the Great (bk. XVI, ch. I)
What more would you have? He has invented history. [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
Author: Madame Marie Anne du Deffand
Source: said of Voltaire, who was accused by critics of lack of invention
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.
Author: Dionysius of Heraclea
Source: Ars Rhetorica (XI, 2, p. 212), (Tauchnitz edition)
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Speech
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Author: Abba Eban
Source: in a speech in London
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--History
There is properly no history, only biography.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--History
History is more or less bunk.
Author: Henry Ford
Source: in the "Chicago Tribune"
The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.
Author: Edward Gibbon
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. III), (1776)
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 16)
The long historian of my country's woes.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. III, l. 142), (Pope's translation)
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. III, l. 142), (Pope's translation)
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: None
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Author: H. G. Wells
Source: None
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: None
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
Author: Henry Adams
Source: None
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
Author: Philip Guedalla
Source: None
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
History: A distillation of rumor.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Source: None
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
History belongs to the winner.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
Author: Mary Coleridge
Source: None
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
Author: Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Source: None
Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.
Author: Phillip Guedalla
Source: None
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
Author: Phillip Guedala
Source: None
Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.
Author: Philip Howard
Source: None
All history, of course, is the history of wars.
Author: Penelope Lively
Source: None
Give the historians something to write about.
Author: Propertius
Source: None
A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.
Author: Abram Joseph Ryan
Source: None
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
Author: Saki
Source: None
The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
Author: Arnold Schopenhauer
Source: None
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Author: Lee Simonson
Source: None
I have no history but the length of my bones.
Author: Robin Skelton
Source: None
History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.
Author: Clarice Stasz Stoll
Source: None
To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.
Author: Orson Wells
Source: None
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
Author: Dorothy West
Source: None
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Author: Ronald Wright
Source: None
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Author: Clarence Darrow
Source: None
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
Author: Gretel Ehrlich
Source: None
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Author: Stephen Spender
Source: None
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Author: Henry B. Adams
Source: None
One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war.
Author: Robert D. Macdonald
Source: None
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
Author: William Manchester
Source: None
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.
Author: Richard M. Nixon
Source: None
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
Author: Richard M. Nixon
Source: None
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
Author: Oliver North
Source: None
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Author: Evita Peron
Source: None
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Author: Juan Antonio Samaranch
Source: None
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
Author: Adm James Stockdale
Source: None
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Author: Margaret Thatcher
Source: None
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
Author: Arnold J. Toynbee
Source: None
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Author: Jessamyn West
Source: None
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
Author: Theodore H. White
Source: None
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Source: None
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
History is the devil's scripture.
Author: Lord Byron
Source: None
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
Author: Cicero
Source: None
History is a vast early warning system.
Author: Norman Cousins
Source: None
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Author: Eugene V. Debs
Source: None
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
Author: Paul Eldridge
Source: None
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
Author: John W. Gardner
Source: None
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Author: Edward Gibbon
Source: None
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
Author: Don Herold
Source: None
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.
Author: Eric Hoffer
Source: None
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Source: None
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Author: Randall Jarrell
Source: None
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
Author: Geraldine Jewsbury
Source: None
Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.
Author: Margaret Mead
Source: None
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
Author: Henry De Montherlant
Source: None
History -- its what those bitter old men write.
Author: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Source: None
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Author: Ovid
Source: None
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
Author: Nancy Pickard
Source: None
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "great changes.".
Author: Marcel Proust
Source: None
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
Author: Thomas H. Raddall
Source: None
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
Author: George Sand
Source: None
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
Author: Friedrich Von Schiller
Source: None
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Author: Stendhal
Source: None
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
Author: A.j.p. Taylor
Source: None
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
Author: Richard H. Tawney
Source: None
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Author: Rebecca West
Source: None
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.
Author: Charlotte Barnard
Source: None
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
Author: Paul Dickson
Source: None
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...
Author: James Knox Polk
Source: None
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.
Author: Margaret Thatcher
Source: None
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
Author: George F. Will
Source: None
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.
Author: John Barth
Source: None
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
History is past politics; and politics present history.
Author: John Seeley
Source: None
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Author: Cato The Elder
Source: None
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Author: Nicolas Caussin
Source: None
While we read history we make history.
Author: George William Curtis
Source: None
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
Author: E. M. Cioran
Source: None
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
Author: Nathanael Greene
Source: None
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Author: George W. Ball
Source: None
As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
Author: Gerald Barzan
Source: None
Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
Author: Edwin C. Bliss
Source: None
It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Author: Brian Friel
Source: None
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
Author: Robert Jacob Goodkin
Source: None
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Author: Leslie P. Hartley
Source: None
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Author: Billy Joel
Source: None
Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.
Author: Edward Finlason
Source: None
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
Author: John Hersey
Source: None
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Author: Elizabeth Ii
Source: None
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religmon. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
Author: Richard M. Nixon
Source: None
Time is my greatest enemy.
Author: Evita Peron
Source: None
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Author: Dan Quayle
Source: None
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
Source: None
Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.
Author: Horace Sutton
Source: None
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Author: Alexis De Tocqueville
Source: None
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Author: Mao Tse-tung
Source: None
We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.
Author: Adm Stansfield Turner
Source: None
The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Author: Charles A. Beard
Source: None
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Author: Max Beerbohm
Source: None
History is a confused heap of facts.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
Source: None
History is philosophy learned from examples.
Author: Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
Source: None
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Author: Gustav Flaubert
Source: None
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
Author: The Talmud
Source: None
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
Author: Margaret Thatcher
Source: None
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Author: Dylan Thomas
Source: None
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Source: None
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Source: None
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
Source: None
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Source: None
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Author: Carl Jung
Source: None
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
Author: Vaclav Havel
Source: None
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Author: Earl Of Chesterfield
Source: None
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Author: Francois Mitterrand
Source: None
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: None
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Author: Matsuo Basho
Source: None
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Author: Will Durant
Source: None
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Source: None
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Author: Vicki Baum
Source: None
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Author: Walter Benjamin
Source: None
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
Author: John Berger
Source: None
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Author: George Clemenceau
Source: None
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
Author: James A. Baldwin
Source: None
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
Author: Charles De Gaulle
Source: None
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: None
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Author: John F. Kennedy
Source: None
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
Author: G. Gordon Liddy
Source: None
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Author: Gen Douglas Macarthur
Source: None
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Author: Edward R. Murrow
Source: None
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Author: Marge Piercy
Source: None
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Author: Joseph Stalin
Source: None
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
Source: None
History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
Author: Henry Kissinger
Source: None
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: None
History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
The Thames is liquid history.
Author: John Burns
Source: None
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Author: Grover Cleveland
Source: None
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
Author: Charles De Gaulle
Source: None
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
To many fame comes too late.
Author: Luis De Camoens
Source: None
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
Author: Samuel Davies
Source: None
Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
Author: Caleb Bingham
Source: None
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Author: Sting
Source: None
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Source: None
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
Author: Gerald R. Ford
Source: None
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Author: Herbert Hoover
Source: None
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Author: Edward M. Kennedy
Source: None
90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
Author: Colin Powell
Source: None
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Source: None
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Source: None
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Author: Frederich Wilhelm Nietzche
Source: None
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
Author: C. D. Andrews
Source: None
I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.
Author: Edward Vii
Source: None
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Author: Francis Herbert Hedge
Source: None
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
Author: Clarence Darrow
Source: None
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Author: John Barth
Source: None
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.
Author: Ashurnasirpal
Source: None
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
Author: Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
Source: None
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Author: Will Durant
Source: None
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Author: Oliver Cromwell
Source: None
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
Author: Marquis De Sade
Source: None
What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.
Author: Irving R. Kaufman
Source: None
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Author: Henry A. Kissinger
Source: None
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Source: None
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Source: None
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.
Author: Unknown History Student
Source: None
Failure is impossible.
Author: Susan B. Anthony
Source: None
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
Source: None
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Author: Jacques Chirac
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They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Author: Gen Douglas Macarthur
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
Author: Metternich
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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Author: Lawrence Durrell
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Might does not make right, it only makes history.
Author: Jim Fiebig
Source: None
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
Author: John Guare
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Author: Herbert Hoover
Source: None
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Author: Saul Bellow
Source: None
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
Author: Unknown History Student
Source: None
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
Author: A. Whitney Brown
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Author: Herodotus
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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Author: Charles J. Givens
Source: None
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
Author: John Quincy Adams
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Author: Dante Alighieri
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Author: Tony Blair
Source: None
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Author: Frederich Wilhelm Nietzche
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Author: George Orwell
Source: None
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
Author: D. J. Enright
Source: None
In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.
Author: Farouk I
Source: None
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Author: Heywood Broun
Source: None
With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.
Author: John Carman
Source: None
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Author: Barry M. Goldwater
Source: None
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
Author: George M. Humphrey
Source: None
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Author: Irving R. Kaufman
Source: None
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Author: Alan Alda
Source: None
The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne
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History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Author: Augustine Birrell
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Author: Henry James
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Author: William J. Durant
Source: None
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Source: None
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
Author: William O. Douglas
Source: None
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Author: Nikita S. Khrushchev
Source: None
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Source: None
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
Author: David Lloyd George
Source: None
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.
Author: Herbert Hoover
Source: None
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
Author: Adm William Halsey
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Author: Wendell Berry
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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
Author: Kenneth Auchincloss
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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Author: Karl Marx
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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Author: George Ade
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Author: Louisa May Alcott
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Author: Fidel Castro
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Author: Otto Von Bismarck
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History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.
Author: Otto Von Bismark
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