Home / Topics / History Quotes

History Quotes

Browse 6202 quotes about History.

History Quotes

“Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.”

“Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.”

Values History Conflict Convinced Tendencies Exposed Scholar

Author:Bernard Beckett

“The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind. The observer of the realm of history cannot be disinterested in the same way, for two reasons: first, he must look at history from some locus in history; secondly, he is to a certain degree engaged in its ideological conflicts.”

Way Mind Firsts Looks Two Reason Science Certain Natural History Scene Pure Conflict Degrees Limitation Realms Engaged Bias Observers Ideological Disinterested

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.”

“In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they have seen of oppression and violence, they have gotten more brave, more strong, more fearless than they were. You see this refusal to just keep quiet and do as you are told.”

“Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.”

History Battle Conflict Understood Regard Series This Day Humankind Facets

Author:Anton Chekhov

“It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.”

World War Moral History Conflict Achievement Noble Vain Accomplishment Minorities World History

Author:John Bartholomew Gough

“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.”

Men Long Has Beens War Reality Term Religious History Conflict Long Term Nature Of Man Religious Wars Religion War Religion And War Religious Conflict Causes Of Conflict

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.”

Humans Political History Conflict Importance Theme Skepticism Human History Subordinates

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.”

World Passion Poor History Generations Conflict Weapons Prejudice Future Generation

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”