Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. Napoleon Bonaparte
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle
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
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. Victor Hugo
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
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. Karl Marx
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
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. George Orwell
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. Noam Chomsky
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Karl Marx
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. Margaret Mead
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
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
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. Ambrose Bierce
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? Carl Jung
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. Richard P. Feynman