No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.Amartya Sen
Quotes About History | QuotePlace
17 quotes in the QuotePlace collection contain the word ‘history’. Browse them all below — every card opens its own full quote page.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
Never, ever forget history.Sukarno
A person may be as clever as the sky, but as long as he does not write, he will be lost in history and drowned by time.Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The day will come when history will speak.Patrice Lumumba
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.Chinua Achebe
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.Marcus Garvey
Africa will write its own history, and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity.Patrice Lumumba
Since ancient times, who has not died? Let my loyal heart shine in the annals of history.Wen Tianxiang
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.Winston Churchill
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present.Babatunde Olatunji
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.John F. Kennedy
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.Oscar Wilde
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.George Santayana
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.H. G. Wells
Bengal has no history of her own; that history must be written by Bengalis themselves.Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.Jacques Cousteau