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| "The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes" |
| Adolf Hitler |
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| 'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake |
| James Joyce |
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| A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. |
| Norman Cousins |
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| A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind |
| John Maynard Keynes |
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| Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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| All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. |
| Honore de Balzac |
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| All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. |
| Flannery O'Connor |
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| All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall |
| Harry S Truman |
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| Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms. |
| Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard |
| Will Durant |
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| Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a supreme being intelligent and benevolent, the answer must be a reluctant negative |
| Will Durant |
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| Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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