Quote by Charles Dickens

“were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities…

— Charles Dickens

“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.”

— Anonymous

“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere,…

— Louis L'Amour

“Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply…

— Christie Golden

“Certainly, no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated exterminations of its inhabitants.”

— Charles Darwin

“The trouble with ancient history is that, as far as I can tell, the vast majority of it took place a hell of a…

— John Powell

“Throughout history, it is often the ostensibly innocuous more so than any notable provenance that leads to the irreparable consequential.”

— Steve Sagarra

“Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating protagonists, heroes,…

— James Ferguson

“It's about time that governments feared the people instead of the other way around.”

— Henry Rollins

“Of course, at some point you had to ask yourself how much legitimacy any government had that feared dissension within more than invasion from…

— Yoon Ha Lee

“Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their society, but…

— C.L.R. James