Active Quote by Abigail Adams

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

— Tanith Lee

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

— Karl Marx

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

— Anonymous

Men make history. History does not make the man.

— Harry S. Truman

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will…

— Anonymous

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends.…

— Karl Marx

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

— Joseph Heller

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind…

— F. M. Powicke

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs…

— Carl Sagan

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

— Salman Rushdie

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

— George Carlin

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and…

— Anonymous