History Quotes

"The past haunts us not because we cannot forget it, but because we cannot fully understand it."

"History keeps the score."

"History is the graveyard of the certainties of previous generations."

"The most destructive idea in human history is the idea of eternal progress."

"Decent people don't make history."

"The past is a foreign country."

"I think that New York is not the cultural custodian any longer."

"A civilized society cannot survive without a sense of history."

"America has grown prosperous but not wise."

"Civilization has greatly improved the human condition."

"Society will always create the conditions for its own dissolution."

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes and echoes."

"History repeats because we never pay attention the first time."

"America has moved from a farming to a business to a service economy."

"The past is really the only thing that anyone really has."

"The human animal cannot go forward into the future without preserving the past."

"Civilization is built on a number of uncomfortable premises."

"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."

"You can't blame anybody in those days for not getting depressed."

"Your past is a ghost."

"History repeats itself"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without passing through civilization."

"America seems to be the boiling point of the whole world."

"History is the lie that everyone agrees upon."

"The machine gun is coming into wider use."

"The past shapes the future."

"To understand history is to understand that nothing is predetermined."

"History does not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes."

"I was born myself in this decade, and so I know something about it."

"The history of any nation is the history of its forgotten men"