We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford

History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin Luther

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
Charles de Gaulle

History shows that there are no invincible armies.
Joseph Stalin

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

History should be written as philosophy.
Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan