The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. – Benito Mussolini
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. – Doug Coupland
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. – Desmond Tutu
All history is incomprehensible without Christ. – Ernest Renan
Value people on their potential, not on their history. – Bo Bennett
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. – W. H. Auden
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. – Carroll Quigley
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. – Gustave Flaubert
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. – Noam Chomsky
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. – Elie Wiesel
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. – Michelle Obama
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. – Theodor Adorno
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. – Norman Borlaug
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. – Newt Gingrich
I think the materialist conception of history is valid. – Christopher Hitchens
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. – Paul Ryan
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. – Jerry Saltz
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. – Salman Rushdie
Black history is American history. – Morgan Freeman
