History is more or less bunk.  

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. 

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. 

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. l 

Study history, study history. In history list all the secrets of statecraft.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. 

History is written by the victors. 

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.

All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary defeat ; be cheerful and optimistic. Above all, never lose your faith in the destiny of India. There is no power on earth which can keep India in bondage. India will be free and, that too, soon. JAl HIND"

No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussion.

Dictators are the most insecure people on earth.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and become the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.