History Quote by Stephen and Tiffany Domena

“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted…

— Tudor Parfitt

“one can discourage too much history in one's family, but one cannot always prevent geography.”

— Saki

“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly…

— Theodore Zeldin

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

“History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors”

— Robert Irwin

“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged”.”

— Howard Zinn

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.”

— Anne Rice

“and yet we're in the generation where deleting history became more important than creating history.”

— Waasay Uddin

“Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history.”

— kevin powers

“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

"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