History Quotes

"This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning." "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them" "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman" "I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it." "Religion is the opium of the masses." "I'm the most brutal and ruthless conqueror that ever lived" "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" "Men make their own history but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past" "Revolutions are the locomotives of history" "History is the memory of states" "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." "Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock." "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain" "I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."