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Quotations by Subject: History (17 quotes)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.: E.M. Cioran
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.: William James (1842 - 1910)
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.: David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.: William H. Borah
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.: H.G. Wells
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.: Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1

Results from Poor Man's College:

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.: Hendrik W. Van Loon
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

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