Character Quote by Syed Hussein Alatas

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the…

— Mary Ritter Beard

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

— Tacitus

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that…

— Tom Stoppard

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

— I. F. Stone

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

— Anonymous

Civilization depends on morality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are…

— Simon Conway Morris

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

— Leo Tolstoy

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but…

— James Anthony Froude