History Quotes
Carlyle leads by count, with Yuval Noah Harari, Will Durant and Isaac Asimov close behind. The sourced picks include Karl Popper’s claim in The Open Society (1945) that there is no history of mankind, only many histories of aspects of human life, and Oscar Wilde’s line from 1891 that anybody can make history but only a great man can write it.
The Churchill line “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it” is flagged as misattributed. What the notes give is his House of Commons speech of 23 January 1948, in which he proposed to leave the past to history, especially as he intended to write that history. A line on Anglo-Irish history credited to Shaw is flagged too, and the notes record the more common, punchier version of it.
The entire history of software engineering is that of the rise in levels of abstraction.
For sheer brutality on woman, I do not remember anything in history to match the Malabar rebellion.
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten.
History is is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.
The capitalist press simply records history, it never makes it; only the masses make history!
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
Kant's critical philosophy is the most elaborate fit of panic in the history of the Earth.