Affair Quote by Neil Gaiman

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being…

— Terry Pratchett

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush…

— Vasily Grossman

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to…

— Howard Zinn

That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad…

— Neal Stephenson

Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery,…

— Anonymous

Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all…

— Anonymous

“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

— Anonymous

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good…

— Robert Penn Warren

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things.…

— C. S. Lewis