Force Quote by Ahad Ha'am

“It’s not in the history books because if people knew the truth they wouldn’t be able to go about their day to day lives,…

— M.D. Bowden

“History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through the minds…

— Priscilla Smith Robertson

“For as fashionable as cynicism always was, the truth was that when it came to basic human responsibility, people rose to the challenge. Pretty…

— Marcus Sakey

“In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of…

— Daisaku Ikeda

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

— Julian Assange

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

— Jean Chretien

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

— Ken Wilber

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

— Leon Trotsky

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

— Helen Cam