Achievement Quote by Samuel Logan Brengle

The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office…

— J. Oswald Sanders

“Historians often minimize or discount the impact that any one individual can have on human destiny-and for good reason. Given the broad tides in…

— Kevin Fedarko

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will…

— Anonymous

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and…

— Albert Camus

“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

“We shall not understand the history of men and of other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied,…

— Benedetto Croce

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends.…

— Karl Marx

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

— Edward Gibbon

“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

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like…

— Camille Paglia

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It…

— Karl Marx

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other…

— Walter Raleigh