Their history is largely a record of crime, war, disease…

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

— Edward Abbey

Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it,…

— Colum McCann

Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy,…

— Vilfredo Pareto

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

— Charles Francis Adams Jr

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

— Frank Herbert

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially enlist.”

— Pankaj Mishra

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

— Murray Edelman

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

— Rodman Philbrick

Remembering you is easy, I do it every day. But there is an ache within my heart that will never go away.

— Anonymous

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the…

— Derek Walcott

There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“A memory that costs you something," he said aloud, almost to himself. "One that hurts to remember. That makes you regret what you did…

— Daria Lavelle

For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the…

— Zooey Deschanel

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

— Elaine Dundy