History Quotations..

• History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
  Konrad Adenauer # History, Result Quotes
• Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm.
  Julian Assange # Censorship, Information, Freedom of speech, Justice, History, Newspaper, News Quotes
• To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.
  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk # History, Important, Confused, Truth Quotes
• It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. ... Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.
  Pope Benedict XVI # Truth, Islam, Mistakes, Christianity, History, Great, Identity Quotes
• Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.
  Carlos Castaneda # History, Life, Family, Friendship, Warrior, Angry, Thinking, Expectations Quotes
• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi # Culture, Different, Protection, History, Identity, Government Quotes
• Let’s forget the reunification, let’s just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.
  Joschka Fischer # Talk, History, Experience, Politics Quotes
• Stalin was a guy like we are, not only that he considered himself a revolutionary and lived like one, but he was a character in the truest sense of the word ... We have finally to let out this psychological wreckage ... it is our and my darkest chapter, I know or better to say I suspect it, because I am extremely afraid of certain things that are inside of me.
  Joschka Fischer # Fear, Revolution, Leadership, Psychology, History Quotes
• The history of the past centuries and millennia has been a history of almost ubiquitous wars, and sometimes desperate battles, leading to mutual destruction.
  Mikhail Gorbachev # History, War, Negative, Military Quotes
• I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and Maintain Self-Esteem and Self-Worth. Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been taught these subjects in school along with their regular curriculum?
  Louise Hay # Children, School, Teaching, History, Self Esteem, Finance, Investing, Relationships, Education, Criticism, Negative Quotes
• It is inevitable for China and the United States to have different views on some issues as the two countries have different history, culture and domestic situation.
  Hu Jintao # Asia, America, Different, History, Culture, Opinion Quotes
• No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.
  Paul Keating # Nation, History, Changes, Future, Decisions Quotes
• We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
  Martin Luther King, Jr. # History Quotes
• I consider it a great obligation that (my) presidency be a presidency of national accord, a presidency that will bridge divides after a difficult, painful history, for the good of Poland's future.
  Bronislaw Komorowski # State, Nation, Difficult, History, Future, Political Quotes
• Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
  Benito Mussolini # Fascism, Religion, History Quotes
• It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
  Benito Mussolini # History, Winning, Important, Great, Fight, Determined Quotes
• I stand here today at the crosscurrents of that history - knowing that my piece of the American dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me.
  Michelle Obama # History, American Dream, Blessing, Appreciation Quotes
• History shows that there are no invincible armies.
  Joseph Stalin # History, Military Quotes
• I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
  Joseph Stalin # Negative, Death, History, Experience, Politics Quotes
• Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.
  Joseph Stalin # Politics, Europe, Leadership, History, Changes Quotes
• My goal is to help you understand what is "really" happening, the long energetic history that is just now being revealed. Then we will have the power to change things from the source, and the world itself will change.
  James Twyman # Goals, Motivational, Help, Understanding, History, Power, Changes Quotes

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