The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Nikita Khrushchev

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
Dan Quayle

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
W. H. Auden

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Benjamin Disraeli

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
Michael Phelps

Grace can and does have a history.
Karl Rahner

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell

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

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.
Spike Lee

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
William James

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
Martin Heidegger

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot