Common people Quote by Sylvia Plath

“Men said things like "peace in our time" or "an empire that will last a thousand years," and less than half a lifetime later…

— Terry Pratchett

“while we remain immersed in the study of personal incidents and details, as what such a statesman said or how many men were killed…

— John Fiske

“The one similarity among all the people in the history is, they died alive.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“I could see how this civilization will be totally wrecked if all true records of human prehistory are made public.”

— Toba Beta

“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our…

— Joan Nestle

“I would rather not speak with history but history came to me. It was dark before daybreak when the fire sparked. The men left…

— Joy Harjo

“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

“Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.”

— Daniel Nayeri

“It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed the world.…

— Colum McCann

“if history remembered him as an idiot, well, he was only one among billions of people. History could spare one man. All men are…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a…

— Tosca Lee

“The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection.”

— Toba Beta