Compassion Quote by Ann Widdecombe

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

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

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush…

— Vasily Grossman

All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors…

— John Locke

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr

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

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than…

— Philip Wylie

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It…

— Karl Marx

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey