Quotes - History


 


History is a set of lies agreed upon.



Napoleon, *15-Aug-1769, † 05-May-1821
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French monarch
Napoleon
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.


Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Ronnie D. Laing
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Ronnie D. Laing
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by Robert E. Haraldsen
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History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Herbert George Wells
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Herbert George Wells


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