Chains Quote by Georg Brandes

“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

“...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

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from…

— Jacob Burckhardt

“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.”

— A.H. Septimius

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

“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

Historyis nothing other than a collection of the lives of people, some of them great, some of them ordinarynothing other than a collection of…

— Artur Davis

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

“The history of the world is but a biography of great men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

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