History quotes

“Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.”
Brad Pitt - Wardaddy

“You can wipe out an entire generation, you can burn their homes to the ground and somehow they'll still find their way back. But if you destroy their history, you destroy their achievements and it's as if they never existed. That's what Hitler wants and that's exactly what we are fighting for.”
George Clooney - Frank Stokes

“The story of the Negro in America is the story of America, and it is not a pretty story.”
James Baldwin - Self

“People need their history. It gives them strength. They need to know that real men actually lived here. Not ghosts, and storybook legends- People who faced adversity and overcame it.”
Richard R. Grant - Bill Walton

“There's a special excitement in playing a man who made a hole in history large enough to be remembered centuries after he died.”
Charlton Heston

“A mad genius. An unholy creation. The world, of course, remembers the monster, not the man. But sometimes, when you look closely, there's more to a tale. Sometimes the monster is the man.”

Daniel Radcliffe - Igor

“Half of writing history is hiding the truth.”
Nathan Fillion - Mal

“Some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend; legend became myth.”

“- Night Slasher: You want to go to hell? Huh, pig? You want to go to hell with me? It doesn't matter, does it? We are the hunters. We kill the weak so the strong survive. You can't stop the new world. Your filthy society will never get rid of people like us. It's breeding them! We are the future!
- Lieutenant Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti: No!
[aims...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brian Thompson - Night Slasher
Sylvester Stallone - Lieutenant Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti

“- Brody: For nearly three thousand years man has been searching for the lost Ark. It's not something to be taken lightly. No one knows its secrets. It's like nothing you've ever gone after before.
- Indiana Jones: Oh, Marcus. What are you trying to do, scare me? You sound like my mother. We've known each other for a long time. I don't believe in...” (continue)(continue reading)
Denholm Elliott - Brody
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones

“Who we are is who we were.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - John Quincy Adams

“- Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm: 1937: Hitler joins the Thule Society, a group of German aristocrats obsessed with the occult. In 1938, he acquired the spear of Longinus, which pierced the side of Christ. He who holds it becomes invincible. Hitler's power increases tenfold. 1943: President Roosevelt decides to fight back. The Bureau of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir John Hurt - Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm
Rupert Evans - John Myers

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.”
Brad Pitt - Tyler Durden

“- McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up till now.
- Jacobs: Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lloyd Bridges - McCroskey
Stephen Stucker - Jacobs

“I know more about the law and the history out here than the people themselves. Let me tell you, I feel for them. They're a proud people. But they're also a conquered people. That means their future is dictated by the nation that conquered them. Rightly or wrongly, that's the way it works, down through history.”
Sam Shepard - Frank Coutelle

“These are facts, sir. Not school book history, not Mr. Wells's history, but history nevertheless. They sent this foot-high jeweled bird to Charles, who was then in Spain. They sent it in a galley commanded by a member of the Order. It never reached Spain.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

“Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world.”
Mako - Akiro 'The Wizard'

- Putter: Is that a boy or a girl?
- Lloyd: Girl, Joan of Arc. She dressed up as a man and led the French in fighting the English. She heard voices, "stop being a peasant", "France needs you", "the truth needs you". And she won, she beat the English, but then...
- Putter: Then what?
- Lloyd: The French, burnt her, alive!
Yeardley Smith - Putter
Keith Gordon - Lloyd

“Some of these buildings are over 20 years old.”

Steve Martin - Harris K. Telemacher

“The last of the V8 Interceptors... a piece of history! Would've been a shame to blow it up.”

Steve J. Spears - Mechanic

“What can you expect when you're on top? You know? It's like Napoleon. When he was the king, you know, people were just constantly trying to conquer him, you know, in the Roman Empire. So, it's history repeating itself all over again.”
Mark Wahlberg - Dirk Diggler

“On the western frontier of Missouri, the American Civil War was fought not by armies, but by neighbors. Informal gangs of local southern Bushwhackers fought a bloody and desperate guerrilla war against the occupying Union Army and pro-Union Jayhawkers. Allegiance to either side was dangerous. But it was more dangerous still to find oneself...” (continue)(continue reading)

“Take a look at a castle. Any castle. Now break down the key elements that make it a castle. They haven't changed in a thousand years. 1: Location. A site on high ground that commands the territory as far as the eye can see. 2: Protection. Big walls, walls strong enough to withstand a frontal attack. 3: A garrison. Men who are trained and willing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

“It takes time to figure things out. It's been proven by history. All mankind makes mistakes.”
Bruce Willis - Captain Sharp

“Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.”
Jenna Ortega - Wednesday Addams