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“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

History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people's perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which shape the…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the…

— Albert Camus

The history of one is the history of all.

— Grace King

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses…

— Friedrich Engels

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 in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may…

— Miguel de Cervantes

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

— Paul Valery

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 is for all of us to discuss. All history is our common heritage to discuss and analyze. The founding of the state of…

— Ken Loach

But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot