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.
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. (p. 84)
one of the historical truths of all history is that the oppressed never revere their oppressors.
writing about Algeria is an endless discovery of a history I was never taught.
"Let’s unite to end political vengeance, open a new chapter in history." (1 December 2024)
Art is connection. It’s the thread between people. It’s history, protest, memory, and possibility
Look at my political history. I would be the last person to advocate such a scheme.