6,230 Quotes About History

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

As in a longstanding civil war—art, religion, and all the other foot soldiers of history march with feet rising in contradiction and falling to the drumbeat of reconciliation toward a shared fate: a final battle and a final peace.

Human history makes everlasting peace seem possible only in theory.

As the number of oral cultures in the world has diminished, interest in them has grown, and one of the most intriguing questions is whether there might be such a thing as an ‘oral way of seeing’, a worldview common to oral peoples that might be different in some generalizable way from the worldview of people in cultures with writing.

History is written by the victors - Lorn au Arcos

History is made by people in power making decisions, and their notes and writings reveal the decision-making process.

In the midst of the pandemic, our fervent prayers can change the course of history.

Le mie gambe tremano quando cammina deliberatamente piano nella nostra direzione. Sembra ancora il diavolo in persona. La sua compostezza e la sua fierezza creano un’aura tetra lungo il percorso.

Humanity should eliminate processes that base one’s happiness in another’s unhappiness. Moral people follow this direction, but there are still people with malicious intentions that must change.