History

"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

"The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition."

"A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

"As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill."

"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."

"Don't forget your history nor your destiny."

"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."

"History never repeats itself. Man always does."

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."