It is much more difficult to talk about a thing than to do it. Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
History Quotes
The thing we learn from history is that people do not learn from history.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten… What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are […]
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strenghten and knit the repressed.
I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I’ve been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for […]
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
The world’s history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
Every man is a history of the world to himself.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
