History Quote by Pankaj Mishra

Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that in the…

— Philip Anschutz

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization…

— Anonymous

Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see…

— Pankaj Mishra

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

— John Oliver Killens

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs…

— Jackson Spielvogel

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

— Ludwig von Mises

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a…

— Victor Cousin