3 December 2020 John Burroughs I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
3 December 2020 David Wilkerson God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
3 December 2020 Monica Lewinsky He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn’t. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
3 December 2020 Marc Jacobs I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they’ve been waiting or whether it’s raining or it’s snowing or whatever.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
3 December 2020 Jean Anouilh Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
3 December 2020 Vivienne Westwood I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
3 December 2020 James Buchan If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
3 December 2020 Helena Christensen It’s incredible to have been part of fashion history – my whole career has been one big highlight.
3 December 2020 Edward Gibbon History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
3 December 2020 John Guare We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
3 December 2020 Mangosuthu Buthelezi We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people – history has made us all South Africans.
3 December 2020 Michael Pollan For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
3 December 2020 Liev Schreiber Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
3 December 2020 Robert Caro I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
3 December 2020 Norodom Sihanouk Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.
3 December 2020 David Brin The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
3 December 2020 James Lovelock There aren’t just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It’s our evolutionary history.
3 December 2020 Queen Elizabeth II The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Lenin The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
