History Quotes

I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.
Al-Rodan, Nayef



Politics is history in the present tense.
John P. Avlon



No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible.
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen



Destiny and history are untidy.
Djuna Barnes



All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
Richard Gary Brautigan



Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz



Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is an episode in a man's.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stal



The art of generalship does not age, and it is because Scipio's battles are richer in stratagems and ruses many still feasible today than those of any other commander in history that they are an unfailing object-lesson to soldiers.
Scipio Africanus



That decision will in history be written as the biggest mistake that American administration ever made, because Lehmans was a world investment bank. They had testicles [sic] everywhere
Bertie Ahern



More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen



Nakhchivan is one of the Dada Gorgud centers of Azerbaijan. And the relics of Kitabi Dada Gorgud found in Nakhchivan once again shows that to what extent Nakhchivan is old and ancient in Azerbaijan history.
Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev



Nakhchivan has an ancient history of statehood. This is Azerbaijans statehood history.
Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev



You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou



On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
Matthew Arnold



Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.
John David Ashcroft