My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. – Russell Banks
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. – Simon Wiesenthal
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. – Kim Il-sung
It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. – Neale Donald Walsch
No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948. – Alan Dershowitz
I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history. – Pat Robertson
There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem. – Pat Robertson
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? – Pat Robertson
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! – Camille Paglia
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. – Camille Paglia
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. – Octavio Paz
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. – Thomas Hardy
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. – Ben Stein
Legend remains victorious in spite of history. – Sarah Bernhardt
Then I despair… I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. – Andre Malraux
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. – John Podhoretz
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. – Martin Heidegger
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth
