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.
What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history.
We did our part to add to the Club’s already rich history and culture of success.
I feel the need personally to participate in writing Black women’s history
It is through this almost physical relationship with matter that my personal history finds its form
Bias and prejudice, whether conscious or unconscious, are an impact of history
I got pretty used to the erasure of African histories and the prevalence of ahistorical perspectives
The personal is political, and the political is personal. None of us exist outside history
I wanted to photograph a feeling before it hardened into history