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."

"Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing."

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

"Victory without any struggle is just a victory. But a victory that overcomes a lot of trouble, becomes history."

"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."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart."

"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."

"Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."

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

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."