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History Quotes

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

– Daisaku Ikeda

The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the past with repercussions as important for our understanding of time and history as the geological studies of the same period.

– Neil MacGregor

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there’s certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

– Marcus Allen

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

– Pat Robertson

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

– Eric Hoffer

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started – where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

– Novak Djokovic

What I love about jazz is that it’s full of legends, full of myths. It’s an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

– Damien Chazelle

I would also argue… that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small ‘l’ liberals, we Canadians.

– Dalton McGuinty

The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.

– Maureen Chiquet

He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that were at times deeply injurious to the very people he swore to serve. After all, Reaganomics set in motion one of the largest wealth redistributions in American history, away from the poor and toward the rich.

– Eugene Jarecki

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

– Dick Gregory

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

– David Wilkerson

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn’t. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

– Monica Lewinsky

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that’s the main event of my books. It’s my characters.

– Christopher Koch

I think it’s important to recognise that ‘The Da Vinci Code’ opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

– Elizabeth Kostova

In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.

– Michael Dell

One thing we should all understand is that we are brutally honest with search engines. You show me your search history, and I’ll find something incriminating or something embarrassing there in five minutes. We are more honest with search engines than we are with our families.

– Mikko Hypponen

One of the keys to Jewish culinary history is that the Jewish role was not so much innovation but transition and transformation.

– Gil Marks

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

– Dinesh D’Souza

Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical victory for America’s enemies. But in both these cases, the tactical success of the attacks was not matched by strategic victories. Quite the reverse.

– Peter L. Bergen

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

– Marco Tempest

Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent’s apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act – and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act.

– Derek Blasberg

It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe’s history and not Europe’s present.

– Gordon Brown

Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States – a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history – which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.

– Ezra Taft Benson

The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate – not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.

– Darryl Pinckney

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

– Mary Douglas

Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

– David Talbot

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

– Dalai Lama

It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore it.

– Michael Korda

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

– Elliot Ackerman

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