History Quote by C.Wright Mills

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

— C. Wright Mills

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

— Tanith Lee

“...The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same race as now, in our…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“It is part of the fascination of the study of history that we often know more about what went on a hundred years ago…

— William Stewart Wallace 1932

“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who…

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Karl Marx

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it…

— V. S. Naipaul

“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --”

— Abba Eban

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is told through the eyes of men about men.

— Rachel Brosnahan