Quotes about History
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
— Edmund Burke
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
— CS Lewis
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
— Elie Wiesel
The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
— Joseph Brodsky
When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.
— Pope Francis
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
— Virginia Woolf
These were honoured in their generations and were the glory of the times.
— Anonymous
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.
— Walter Rauschenbusch
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
— Pope John Paul II
Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.
— George W. Bush
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
— Victor Hugo
Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
— Bill Bailey