History Quotes

“The day of the old classical exclusiveness is gone forever.”

“There is nothing that I loathe so much as a smug history.”

“It has been said that the historian is the avenging angel of the present.”

“We were the first to integrate the NBA. We were the first to have a black starting five.”

“Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. That is the ruling class's game.”

“In the great duel between India and England, be it ours to show the noble magnanimity of the victor to the vanquished.”

“History was a wave that moved through the generations, requiring that a generation respond.”

“The Negro has been uprooted from his ancestral soil and has been transplanted to a new world where he has been forced to learn a new language and new ways of life.”

“What is at stake is the memory of a suffering that is not to be compensated.”

“The Bible was the single most powerful formative influence on the minds of Englishmen.”

“I was exiled to Akatuy for participating in the assassination attempt against a Tsarist official in Kiev.”

“History is a savage teacher.”

“For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white.”

“The law of civilization and decay... is that the military, religious, and artistic types of manhood decay, in proportion as the economic type is evolved.”

“History is past politics, and politics is present history.”

“We cannot, without violence to the facts, separate the history of the one from that of the other.”

“The thing about 'Call the Midwife' is that it is a drama about the social history of Britain.”

“Ideology has no history.”

“I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.”

“When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.”