Leo Tolstoy Quotes, People Quotes, History Quotes

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

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I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

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History paints the human heart.

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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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History is written by the winners.

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Kings are the slaves of history.

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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