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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

– Napoleon BonaparteRate it:

History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.

– Simone WeilRate it:

History is a vast early warning system.

– Norman CousinsRate it:

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

– Arnold ToynbeeRate it:

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

– James A. ForudeRate it:

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

– Theodore Harold WhiteRate it:

History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

– Ambrose Gwinett BierceRate it:

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

– Kedar JoshiRate it:

History is bunk.

– Henry FordRate it:

History is fables agreed upon.

– Francois Marie Arouet VoltaireRate it:

History is full of surprises.

– Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.Rate it:

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

– Hunter S. ThompsonRate it:

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

– Edward GibbonRate it:

History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

– Kedar JoshiRate it:

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

– Enoch PowellRate it:

History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.

– Francois Marie Arouet VoltaireRate it:

History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

– Lord John WhorfinRate it:

History is more or less bunk.

– Henry FordRate it:

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.

– Henry FordRate it:

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

– George W. BushRate it:

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

– Abigail AdamsRate it:

History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic.

– Walter WilliamsRate it:

History is not the glory of the winners, it is the weapon of the losers

– Bruno CampelloRate it:

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

– Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)Rate it:

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