Diversity Quote by John Oliver Killens

The history of mankind is his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work.…

— Rebecca West

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

— Pankaj Mishra

I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a…

— Jack Vance

The history of a man is in his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with…

— Niall Ferguson

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

— Alfred de Vigny

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with…

— Arthur Erickson

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“Serious history was the West, and the West was white.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

— Oscar Wilde