We are now, probably for the first time in our history, entering a new aspect of national politics.
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.
History, it has been said, never repeats itself but historical situations recur.
If history was any guide, those best at violence might end up ruling over everyone else.
A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get “tired of being shoved around.”
Nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
The present enshrines the past—and in the past all history has been made by men.