Famous Quote by Norman Davies

Historically marginalised people - by gender, race or nationality - aren't willing to be silent any longer on the crimes of the past and…

— Dawn Foster

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

— Nikita Khrushchev

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.

— Antonin Scalia

In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by…

— Anonymous

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

— Naguib Mahfouz

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

— Robert Kennedy

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they…

— Bernard Hopkins

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of…

— Benedetto Croce

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

— Ray Stevenson

“Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding…

— George M. Dennison