History Quote by Priscilla Smith Robertson

“History is out of human control and moves forward without consideration of human life or human happiness.”

— FastReads

The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts…

— Eduard Bernstein

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses…

— Friedrich Engels

“There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one…

— Karl Popper

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

— Leo Tolstoy

“a better reading of history must bring home the truth that the basic factor in human affairs is not politics, but race.”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.”

— Penelope Lively

“Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human…

— Cornelius Castoriadis

“History is humankind trying to get a grip.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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

— John Edgell

“History is a record of human nature in action.”

— James Carlos Blake

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago