Conflict Quote by Patrick N. Allitt

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

“The explanation is that it is rivals rather than enemies who hamper our beginnings, and it is against them we fight until the great…

— Jean d'Ormesson

“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder…

— Yuval Noah Harari

"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events.…

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

“He said history was a sum of situations whose significance was never seen until long afterwards because people had been afraid to act them…

— Paul Scott

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“If somebody is telling you there is one history, one people & one version of events, you should consider what side of history that…

— Sara Ellie MacKenzie

“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in…

— Shashi Tharoor

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“History is a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.”

— John Edgell

“Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.”

— Brian Herbert