History Quotes

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

History will judge societies and governments – and their institutions – not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.

Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

There’s never been someone like me in history – a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.

History is harsh. What is done cannot be undone.