Business Quote by John Locke

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

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and…

— Albert Camus

“History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.”

— Bobby Adair

Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

— Angela Davis

“What is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is…

— Hermann Hesse

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million…

— Helen Keller

If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at…

— Ethan Hawke

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is…

— Anonymous

“Look here at a warrior born, a scion of power and poverty whose purpose is manifold: to shatter shackles, to murder monarchs, and to…

— Nicholas Eames

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under…

— Lionel Trilling