History and Nations

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

Herbert George Wells

Education

History and Nations

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"History never looks like history when you are living through it."

John W. Gardner

History and Nations

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The Book of History is the Bible of Irony."

George Saintsbury

History and Nations

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History and Nations

Human

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see."

James A. Michener

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."

Abba Eban

History and Nations

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests."

Henry Kissinger

Friendship and Hostility

History and Nations

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Desperate times call for desperate measures."

English Proverbs

Courage and Fear

History and Nations

Rating: 8.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"France is France and a grand place for Frenchman."

Harry S. Truman

History and Nations

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"History doesn't repeat itself - historians merely repeat each other."

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History and Nations

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Art and Antiquity"

History and Nations

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Happy is the nation without a history."

Cesare Beccaria "On Crimes and Punishments"

Happiness

History and Nations

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses."

John Florio "Second Frutes"

History and Nations

Rating: 1.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"History keeps repeating itself because nobody listens."

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History and Nations

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."

Albert Einstein

History and Nations

Peace and War

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"History isn't a single road, but a multitude of them."

Horace

History and Nations

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."

Ben-Gurion-David

History and Nations

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

Jean Genet "Prisoner of Love"

History and Nations

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"History: An illusion caused by the passage of time."

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History and Nations

Time and Passing

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

George Santayana

History and Nations

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Italy is a poor country full of rich people."

Richard Gardner

History and Nations

Richness and Money

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

History and Nations

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes."

Stanley Kubrick

History and Nations

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did."

Malcolm Bradbury "Stepping Westward"

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Patriotism ruins history."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History and Nations

Patriotism

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon."

Benjamin Disraeli

History and Nations

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (speech at Greenville, N.C., Feb 8, 1963)

History and Nations

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."

Charlie Chaplin

History and Nations

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."

Quentin Crisp

Happiness

History and Nations

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat."

Winston Churchill (on America)

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."

Sigmund Freud

Defeates and Mistakes

History and Nations

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth."

David Goldberg

God and Religion

History and Nations

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English."

Henry Louis Mencken

History and Nations

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood."

Peter Handke

History and Nations

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise."

Terry Hands

Defeates and Mistakes

History and Nations

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."

Voltaire "Letters on England"

God and Religion

History and Nations

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Hell is a place where all the cooks are British."

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History and Nations

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

History and Nations

Peace and War

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce."

Francesco Caracciolo

God and Religion

History and Nations

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards."

Karl Kraus "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

History and Nations

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination."

George Bernard Shaw "John Bull's Other Island"

History and Nations

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings."

Sarah M. Grimke "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"

Authority, Government

History and Nations

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."

Benjamin Disraeli

History and Nations

Human

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

Arnold Toynbee

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."

Arnold Toynbee

History and Nations

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"History, a distillation of rumour."

Thomas Carlyle "History of the French Revolution"

History and Nations

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great."

Clement Attlee

History and Nations

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"And what should they know of England who only England know?"

Rudyard Kipling "The English Flag"

History and Nations

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)