Cases Quote by Henry Adams

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

— Jean Chretien

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the…

— Mary Ritter Beard

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be…

— Raymond Williams

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

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of…

— Friedrich Engels

History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of…

— Elizabeth Grosz

“...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

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains…

— Paul Valery

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

— Helen Keller

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

— Mason Cooley