History quotes

“- Julian Marty: You know... in Greece, they would cut off the head of the messenger that brought the bad news.
- Private Detective Loren Visser: Now that don't make much sense.
- Julian Marty: No. It made them feel better.”
Dan Hedaya - Julian Marty
M. Emmet Walsh - Private Detective Loren Visser

“- Walter Donovan: Well, Marcus, we're on the verge of the greatest discovery in the history of mankind.
- Marcus Brody: And you're meddling with powers you can't possibly comprehend.”
Julian Glover - Walter Donovan
Denholm Elliott - Marcus Brody

“A great day comrades, we sail into history!”
Sir Sean Connery - Marko Ramius

“If there is hope, it lies in the proles. If they could become conscious of their own strength, they would have no need to conspire. History does not matter to them.”

Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

“You are a gifted storyteller. You create heroes in a world of cynics. Journey down the Nile with me and I'll give you a chance to record history.”

Spiros Focás - Omar

“Historically, there are two kinds of slaves. House Negroes and Field Negroes. The house Negro lived in the big house; he dressed pretty good; he ate pretty good and he loved the master.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“- James T. Kirk: You say history considers me dead. Who am I to argue with history?
- Picard: You're a Starfleet officer. You have a duty!
- James T. Kirk: I don't need to be lectured by you. I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers. Besides which, I think the galaxy owes me one.”
William Shatner - James T. Kirk
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“- Warren Lasky: Think of the history of the next forty years...
- Cdr. Richard Owens: I have a suspicion history will be a little more difficult to beat, than you imagine Mr. Lasky.”
Martin Sheen - Warren Lasky
James Farentino - Cdr. Richard Owens

“Is peace all you are interested in? The real war is in us. History is a symptom of our disease.”
Ric Young - Mao Tse-Tung

“- Rufus: Greetings, my excellent friends.
- Ted: Do you know when the Mongols ruled China?
- Rufus: Well... Perhaps we can ask them.”
George Carlin - Rufus
Keanu Reeves - Ted 'Theodore' Logan

“Haven't you learned by now that history always repeats itself?”
Helen Mirren - Mrs. Tingle

“- Sara McDowel: What did you have in mind?
- Harris K. Telemacher: Well, I was thinking of taking you on a cultural tour of L.A.
- Sara McDowel: That's the first fifteen minutes, then what?”
Victoria Tennant - Sara McDowel
Steve Martin - Harris K. Telemacher

“- John Quincy Adams: [referring to African slaves] What is their story, by the way?
- Theodore Joadson: Sir?
- John Quincy Adams: What is their story?
- Theodore Joadson: Why, they're… they're from west Africa.
- John Quincy Adams: No. What is their story? Mr. Joadson, you're from where originally?
- Theodore Joadson: Why, Georgia, sir.
- John...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philip Anthony Hopkins - John Quincy Adams
Morgan Freeman - Theodore Joadson

“The only thing new about this world is the history we don't know.”
John Cusack - Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun

“- Tyler Durden: Now, ancient people found their clothes got cleaner if they washed them at a certain spot in the river. You know why?
- The Narrator: No.
- Tyler Durden: Human sacrifices were once made on the hills above this river. Bodies burnt, water speeded through the wood ashes to create lye.”
Brad Pitt - Tyler Durden
Edward Norton - The Narrator

“Mr. Stalin, I believe history will record you as a great builder for the benefit of mankind.”
Walter Huston - Ambassador Joseph E. Davies

“- Reporter: Why did you agree to fight a man who has virtually no chance of winning?
- Apollo: Look, if history proves one thing, American history proves that everybody's got a chance to win. Didn't you guys ever hear of Valley Forge or Bunker Hill?”
Robert Leh - Reporter
Carl Weathers - Apollo

“You Americans have no sense of history.”

David Goldman - Nicholas

“- Casey Jones: Bet you guys feel lucky to be going back, right?
- Benkei: We're lucky. We're going back.
- Guards in unison: Not!
- Casey Jones: This is really gonna screw up history.”

Elias Koteas - Casey Jones
Mak Takano - Benkei - Honor Guard #1

“- Ben Avery: Mike? Happy Birthday, hooligan!
- Michael Hillyard: That's right, my day all day.
- Ben Avery: You know who else's birthday it is? I read it in the San Francisco Chronicle. Julius Ceasar!
- Michael Hillyard: Julius Caesar! How the hell do they know?
- Ben Avery: Because they are fiendishly clever, man!”
Michael O'Hare - Ben Avery
Stephen Collins - Michael Hillyard

“Hi, welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. And I'm telling you it's great here. The air is clean, the water's clean, even the dirt, it's clean. Bowling averages are way up, mini-golf scores are way down. And we have more excellent water slides than any other planet we communicate with. I'm telling you this place is great! But it...” (continue)(continue reading)
George Carlin - Rufus

“The history of my family, like the history of civilization, is the history of war. The getting into it, and outta it, and over it... and Vietnam should have been no different. But it was. It's final battle was fought on an unrecognized front, far from the shellings and the napalm and the guns and the shooting... it was a battle my brother Jeremy...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Karen Collier

“Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes.”
Kim Krizan - Ms. Stroud

“If history teaches us anything, it is simply this: every revolution carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. And empires that rise, will one day fall.”
Julie Cox - Princess Irulan Corrino

“Every primitive culture known to man deified them: ancient China, Egypt, Australia, Asia... Going back in history, crocodiles have been more worshipped than Jesus.”
Bridget Fonda - Kelly Scott