Agency Quote by Friedrich Engels

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It…

— Karl Marx

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

“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that…

— R.G. Collingwood

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr

“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our…

— Joan Nestle

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied…

— Paul Cartledge

“I wish to make it clear that ‘history’ in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this…

— Karl R. Popper

“History has no meaning.”

— Karl R. Popper

“History is a living entity. Not just because of its survivors, and the stories they have to tell, but because of its enduring power…

— Dan Fesperman

“History is made when you live your dream, when you fulfill your purpose by imparting life's positively.Try it and have a legacy”

— Uzoma Kelechi