I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.