Quotes about History

This is a pattern humankind has repeated many times over the course of its history. When there is a crisis, whether real or imagined, culprits—whether real or imagined—must be found and eliminated.

But not, surely, for the first time in human history. How many others have stood in this place? Left behind, with all gone, all swept away. The dead bodies evaporating like slow smoke; their loved and carefully tended homes crumbling away like deserted anthills. Their bones reverting to calcium; night predators

I collected enough fragments of the past to make a reconstruction of it, which must have borne as much relation to the real thing as a mosaic portrait would to the original.

The thing to remember is that there is nothing new about the society depicted in The Handmaid's Tale except the time and place. All of the things I have written about have been done before, more than once.

Canada is built on dead beavers.

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.