Quotes and Sayings about History

Heather Brewer in Vladimir Tod - Ninth Grade Slays

Revolution

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

Karl Marx

It's not always the most powerful who write history. It's the ones who survive.

Liandrin Guirale in The Wheel of Time - Season 2

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Karl Marx

Revolution

People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.

Barack Obama

2008 German Unity Berlin

This is for the record. History is written by the victor. History is filled with liars. If he lives and we die, his truth becomes written - and ours is lost.

Captain John Price in Call of Duty - Modern Warfare

If we don't mind our own histories, it will do the same to us.

Viserys Targaryen in House Of The Dragon - Season 1 Episode 1

A historian is a hunter, my lord. Seeking out signs in the undergrowth of correspondence and memoir, tracking prey via the spoor of memory.

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 3: Queen of Fire

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

Terry Jones

History is a living thing. Paper is dead.

Elder in Castlevania - Season 1 Episode 2

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

Stephen Ambrose

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

Adam Curtis

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Quentin Tarantino

Presidents who obsess over history obsess about their place in it, instead of forging it.

Francis Underwood in House of Cards - Season 2 Episode 7

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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Marcus Garvey

Culture

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Elie Wiesel

Memories Culture

One of the things that draws us to the 19th century is that it's far enough away to feel exotic but close enough to be approachable. We can still recognize ourselves in those people, even as we see all the ways in which our lives have diverged from theirs.

Louis Bayard - August 2019

19th Century

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Erich Fromm

19th Century

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde

19th Century

This room is like a museum of old, useless crap... by which I mean every museum.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 24 Episode 4

Museums

If you gave back every stolen artifact from a museum, you'd be left with an empty building.

Commander Rourke in Atlantis - The Lost Empire

Museums

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum. That's an amusing relic of our past.

John Hodgman

Funny Quotes Museums

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Power Revolution

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

George Orwell in 1984

Revolution

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Karl Marx

Freedom Revolution

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the females.

Karl Marx

Women's Rights

Every man dies, not every man really lives.

William Wallace in Braveheart

Life

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana

War Memorial Day Volkstrauertag

He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

Heather Brewer in First Kill

Books

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

Heather Brewer in Vladimir Tod - Ninth Grade Slays

Treason

Everyone has a choice. And every choice has a consequence.

Moiraine Damodred in The Wheel of Time - Season 2

For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

Barack Obama

Change

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Samuel L. Jackson

Barack Obama 2008

My aim remains, if history approves, to unite our country.

Helmut Kohl

German Unity

One of the main differences between Munich and Berlin is that when thousands of people get drunk in silly clothes and start vomitting, we don't call it "Oktoberfest", we call it "Tuesday".

Felix Lobrecht

Berlin Munich Oktoberfest

Once you pull the pin, Mr. grenade isn't your friend anymore.

Call of Duty - Modern Warfare

Anyone whose tongue dares to question the birth of Princess Rhaenyra's sons should have it removed.

Viserys Targaryen in House Of The Dragon - Season 1 Episode 7

There is no war so hateful to the gods as a war between kin, and no war so bloody as a war between dragons.

Rhaenys Targaryen in House Of The Dragon - Season 2

Dragons

"Mercy is the sweetest wine and the bitterest wormwood," Eliss, the mother, said. "For it rewards the merciful and shames the guilty."

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 2: Tower Lord

Forgiveness & Mercy

Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 2: Tower Lord

Lies

What really alarms me about President Bush's "War on Terrorism" is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is "Terrorism" going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

Terry Jones

Terrorism

It is not dying that frightens us. It's living without ever having done our best.

Elder in Castlevania - Season 1 Episode 2

For evil bastards to win power, all ordinary people have to do is stand aside and keep quiet.

Trevor Belmont in Castlevania - Season 1 Episode 2

It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.

Stephen Ambrose

Nurses

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Clarence Darrow

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