Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own.
History Quotes
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
History – its what those bitter old men write.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of […]
History belongs to the winner.
Legend: a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Sometimes you can remember people by remembering what they saw. When people die they take so much with them, so many details already lost in the fog of senescence. I’m not just talking about family stories, but commonplace facts of daily life – the brand name of an obscure chewing gum, the sound a parking […]
The men who make history have not time to write it.
