Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
History is written by the victors.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.
The arch of history is long, but it bends towards justice.
What britain needs is an iron lady.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
History is more or less bunk.