Events Quote by Francis Bacon

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against…

— Anais Nin

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the…

— Orson Scott Card

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

— Albert Camus

“Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have happened: for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under…

— Lionel Trilling

History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man's evolution from grunting cave…

— Ann Widdecombe

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

— Angela Davis

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is…

— Anonymous

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

— Karl Marx

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

— Herbert Butterfield

“most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic…

— Peter L. Berger