Quotes with history

Quotes 421 till 440 of 604.

  • Otto Von Bismarck The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
    - +
     0
  • Alfred A. Montapert The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • James Baldwin The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
    - +
     0
  • Bertrand Russell The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
    Conquest of Happiness Ch. 1: What Makes People Unhappy?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Klemens Von Metternich The men who make history have not time to write it.
    Klemens Von Metternich
    Austrian diplomat and statesman (1773 - 1859)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Henderson The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
    - +
     0
  • George Orwell The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Koestler The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • Eldridge Cleaver The most revolutionary statement in history is: love thine enemy.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
    - +
     0
  • Brendan I. Koerner The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Clinton The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
    The Critic as Artist (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Noam Chomsky The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
    - +
     0
  • Harry S. Truman The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
    Plain Speaking : An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman (1974) door Merle Miller
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
    - +
     0
  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
    - +
     0
  • A. Whitney Brown The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • George W. Bush The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.
    Inauguratie 2001
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bernard Williams The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
    - +
     0
  • Billy Higgins The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
    - +
     0
  • Aleister Crowley The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
    - +
     0
All history famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 22)