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.
President Trump and I are proud to be the most pro-worker Republican ticket in history.
Islamophobic violence is nurtured by histories of anti-black racist violence.
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Marxist, communist and totalitarian ideology is only a ruse of history.
Take parliament out of the history of England and that history itself becomes meaningless.
Remember that the actions of a few, with commitment, can alter the course of world history.