History Quote by Felix Frankfurter

Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what…

— Fritz Stern

“Throughout history, the men competing to shape the future had collected lost sheep to use as pawns in their game, cannon fodder in their…

— Sean Chercover

“The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers.”

— Victor Hugo

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down…

— Malcolm Bradbury

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

— George Bernard Shaw

“I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men [sic] who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll…

— Golda Meir

“It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of…

— Elizabeth Kostova

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to…

— Aldous Huxley

“We shall not understand the history of men and of other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied,…

— Benedetto Croce

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence…

— Edward Said

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

— Nicolas Chamfort