History Quotes
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![Frédéric Bastiat](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1244626107i/89275._UX200_CR0,17,200,200_.jpg)
“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
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![Golda Meir](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1267489010i/223411._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
― My Life
― My Life
![Yvonne Korshak](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1670540014i/746237._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
![Alan Moore](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1304944713i/3961._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.”
― V for Vendetta
― V for Vendetta
![Friedrich Nietzsche](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651474065i/1938._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
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![Edward W. Said](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518095868i/16770310._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”
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![David McCullough](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429921568i/6281688._UX200_CR0,46,200,200_.jpg)
“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
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[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
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![George Santayana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1535904360i/56610._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
― The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
― The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
![Robert A. Heinlein](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1192826560i/205._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
![Dan Simmons](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1427999015i/2687._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
![Priya Ardis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1322096493i/5347052._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
― Ever My Merlin
He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
― Ever My Merlin
“The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!”
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![Isaac Asimov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1341965730i/16667._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (#92 ff.)”
― Asimov Laughs Again: More Than 700 Jokes, Limericks and Anecdotes
― Asimov Laughs Again: More Than 700 Jokes, Limericks and Anecdotes
![Cassandra Clare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689347318i/150038._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.”
― City of Glass
― City of Glass
![Barbara Sontheimer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1677046268i/23000969._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“Only someone watching him closely like Celena would have noticed his intense preoccupation, and that something in a split second had happened to him. She wondered where he had gone when he should have been listening to the sermon, where his soul had gone went it had left his body.”
― Victor's Blessing
― Victor's Blessing
![Stephanie Garber](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1437192619i/14137787._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.”
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
![Bill Watterson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1374016829i/13778._UY200_CR42,0,200,200_.jpg)
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.”
― Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
― Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
![Claudia Clark](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1633388334i/21883479._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had for her American colleague:
‘So eight years are coming to a close. This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve been able to achieve, to what we discussed, to what we were able to bring about in difficult hours.”
― Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
‘So eight years are coming to a close. This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve been able to achieve, to what we discussed, to what we were able to bring about in difficult hours.”
― Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
![Julian Barnes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1606567988i/1462._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.”
― Mort
― Mort
![Karl Marx](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1523865402i/7084._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).”
― Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
― Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
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