Attitude Quote by Erica Jong

Every progressive movement in U.S. history has been portrayed negatively by the media at the time it happened.

— Boots Riley

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be…

— Raymond Williams

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

— G. M. Trevelyan

Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

— Barack Obama

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism…

— Chuck Klosterman

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

— Barack Obama

What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we have that…

— Kameron Hurley

“History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.”

— Penelope Lively

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the…

— Vladimir Voinovich

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history…

— John D. Barrow