Accounts Quote by Edward Abbey

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

— Edward Gibbon

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes

— Voltaire

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

— Gretel Ehrlich

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

— Voltaire

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

— Pierre Bayle

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

— Michel de Montaigne

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it…

— Henry Steele Commager

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

— Voltaire

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

— Washington Irving