Histories Quotes (page 6)

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• lies
• history
• past

History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth. Howard Zinn

• memories
• history
• memorial

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory George Santayana

• running
• help
• history

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it’s never enough. You also must run. Frank Herbert

• time
• moving
• history

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do. Kim Stanley Robinson

• party
• history
• nothing

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. George Orwell

• history
• ultimate
• resembles

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. J. R. R. Tolkien

• nature
• war
• history

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. Sarah Vowell

• lies
• history
• common

History is the lie commonly agreed upon. Voltaire

• time
• history
• teachings

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. Thurgood Marshall

• history
• look
• looking

History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything. Kim Stanley Robinson

• history
• today
• celebration

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths. Dan Brown

• history
• learning
• end

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning. Carter G. Woodson

• men
• history
• reasonable

History is rarely made by reasonable men. Terry Goodkind

• doubt
• clouds
• history

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand—and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? Washington Irving

• history
• soldier
• accounting

History? An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Ambrose Bierce