History repeats itself.
History Quotes
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see.
Journalism is merely history’s first draft.
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history […]
The humanities will always be heavily influenced by the work of the dead white men of Europe, for they have been history’s troublemakers, the fomenters of revolutions and inventions, the impetus of change, the implacable enemies of the silence in which humanity perishes. No other great body of work invites criticism or denies loneliness to […]
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
In London in the southern section of the Buckingham Palace Road, walking southward along the pavement skirting the west wall of Victoria Station, the writer, once, one afternoon not long after the end of the First World War – he had failed to record the exact date – had found himself in communion, not just […]
Men make history. History does not make the man.
