If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. – Karl Marx
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. – Virginia Woolf
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. – Carter G. Woodson
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. – Aldous Huxley
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them. – Norodom Sihanouk
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. – Pope John Paul II
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. – Karl Marx
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. – George Orwell
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. – Noam Chomsky
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. – Karl Marx
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. – Ambrose Bierce
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? – Carl Jung
History, a distillation of rumour. – Thomas Carlyle
This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath. – Hillary Clinton
