History Quotes About the Past & Its Lessons – Page 10 | GloryQuotes

What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.

Ron Davies

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Lawrence Durrell

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Knut Hamsun

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

Jalal Talabani

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Matt Blunt

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Auguste Rodin

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

Marco Rubio

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Milan Kundera

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

Francis Parker Yockey

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Adrienne Rich

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

William McKinley

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

Lion Feuchtwanger

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Herbert Croly

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

Penelope Lively

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Ludwig von Mises

In any film there's always a historical implication.

Oliver Stone

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

Mary Douglas

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Jacques Rivette

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Finley Peter Dunne

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

Julius Wellhausen

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

John Milton

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Patrick Henry

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Douglas Hurd

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

Li Peng

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

John Hersey

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

Jeremy Rifkin

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

Arnold J. Toynbee

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

Toshihiko Fukui

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

Frank B. Kellogg

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Rudyard Kipling

More Americans are working today than at any time in history.

Roger Wicker

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

Harry Reid

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Bell Hooks

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

Karl Liebknecht

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Henry James

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

George Savile