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 project is to rewrite the palestinian history through the eyes of women.
“Horses are as important to America’s history as any living creature, including man,”
She refuses to understand the march of history, its twists and reversals. (p15)
History shows that often artists first envision the change feminist activists seek to bring about.
[Silvio] Berlusconi, a womanising saint, but he will go down in history as a statesman.