Famous quotes by Historians

"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king, but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty"

Sallust, Historian

"Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure"

Sallust, Historian

"We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve"

Sallust, Historian

"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means"

Sallust, Historian

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"The smaller the function, the greater the management"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men"

Thucydides, Historian

"Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior"

Thucydides, Historian

"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured"

Thucydides, Historian

"History is philosophy teaching by examples"

Thucydides, Historian

"To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"War itself is the enemy of the human race"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

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