History Quotes

"An Anglo-Saxon conquest for the Irish would be a picnic."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"Every person is both a witness and a participant in history."

"The decade that taste forgot was the 1970s."

"History repeats itself because we are incapable of learning."

"The past is not dead, it is alive in us."

"The past informs the present."

"To be topical is to be transitory."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"To understand a country you must understand its literature."

"The South was a violent semi-frontier sort of place and it retained some qualities of that even up to now."

"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."

"We are only just beginning to realize how much the study of the past means for our future."

"To understand history is to understand why people are as they are."

"The past is not dead; it is living within us at every moment."

"The old times are gone and they aint comin back."

"Distance in time emphasizes the things we have in common with the past."

"The past is a foreign country; we cannot return but only remember."

"To understand the present, we must look into the past."

"We carry our entire history within us, whether we acknowledge it or not."

"History repeats not because we are doomed but because we fail to truly learn from the past."

"History is written by the victors; seek out suppressed narratives and alternative perspectives."

"Every society has its myths."

"The truth is that the world broke in half on the day the Twin Towers fell."

"Outside the courthouse, there was a crowd."

"The past lives in all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not."

"History is where you discover that you yourself are not insane"

"The past is not dead. It's not even past. We are still living it."

"Progress is an illusion. We're not getting better. We're just getting different."

"History repeats itself because people never learn from it."