The best Quotes and Sayings about History

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Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

Braveheart
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana
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If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

RevolutionHeather Brewer in Vladimir Tod - Ninth Grade Slays
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Karl Marx
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

RevolutionKarl Marx
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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.

2008, German Unity, BerlinBarack Obama
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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.

Call of Duty - Modern Warfare, by Captain John Price
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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History is a living thing. Paper is dead.

Elder in Castlevania, Season 1 Episode 2
 
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You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

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

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

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

Quentin Tarantino
 
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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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We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

2012KONY 2012
 
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