I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus … am now about to write this strange history of my life…
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 is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything."
History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.
The system breaks every conceivable human right and history will judge us on this. It must end
My father insisted that I read history books in my spare time, and that shaped my life in many ways.
History is part of our birthright. We must claim it back and make it transform our lives.