Aim Quote by Howard Zinn

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

— Isaiah Berlin

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

— J. H. Plumb

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

— Jehane Noujaim

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game,…

— Stefan Zweig

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are…

— Simon Conway Morris

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables…

— Carl L. Becker

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables…

— Carl Becker

The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender social institutions,…

— Ludwig von Mises

In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a…

— C. Wright Mills

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

— Christopher Hitchens