Famous Quotes About history

History is written by the victors.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.