All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
History Quotes
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
The body of history does not determine a single one of my actions. I am my own foundation.
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals – the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.
The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. (96-180 A.D.)
History is a tissue of agreed-upon lies.
There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We’re in science fiction now.
