Causes Quote by Gretel Ehrlich

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

— Eamon Duffy

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

— Saint Augustine

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

— James Nasmyth

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or…

— Richard Holbrooke

History is an argument without end.

— Pieter Geyl

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.”

— Stuart A. Kauffman

The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.

— Billy Graham

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

“History does not end. It is a timeless repetition of human folly and correction. It follows that there is no single model of how…

— Edward Luce

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

— Hannah Arendt

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

— Henry Adams