I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. Pablo Picasso on history
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. William James on history
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. Jean-Paul Sartre on history
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. Aldous Huxley on history
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. Bertrand Russell on history
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. Napoleon Bonaparte on history
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle on history
I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. Muhammad Iqbal on history
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. Victor Hugo on history
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. Victor Hugo on history
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. Karl Marx on history
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. Leo Tolstoy on history
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. George Orwell on history
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. Noam Chomsky on history
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Karl Marx on history
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. Margaret Mead on history
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end. Hubert H. Humphrey on history
As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. Hillary Clinton on history
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. Ambrose Bierce on history
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? Carl Jung on history