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.
My art sheds light on people that history will never talk about
(Allegedly) Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.
Not all of us have that luxury, of a past. My history doesn't offer me much in that respect.
Politics is our responsibility before the history and mankind since the very beginning
We tell the story of England — 6,000 years of history. We look after it and bring it to life.
[W]e now face a demand to make choices that is unparalleled in human history.