Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do. – Paul Simon
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. – Jane Goodall
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. – Shimon Peres
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. – Barbara Ehrenreich
In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it. – Hans-Georg Gadamer
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. – Noam Chomsky
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. – John McCarthy
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. – George Michael
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. – Enoch Powell
I think you can learn from history. – Chuck Norris
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. – James A. Garfield
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. – Alan Greenspan
Strip malls are history. – Jeff Bezos
We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time… to ask for an effort in the battle against debt. – Francois Hollande
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. – Luigi Pirandello
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. – Terry Eagleton
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. – Eugene V. Debs
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties. – Terry Eagleton
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. – Naguib Mahfouz
