Culture Quote by Theodore Zeldin

“It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families don’t disperse generational history to prevent their descendants…

— Stephen and Tiffany Domena

“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.”

— John Lanchester

“Each generation lives in the absolute: it behaves as if it had reached the apex if not the end of history.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“History is written by every generation. Every generation writes its own history using the same sources. The interpretations vary according to time.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“History shapes the lives of all men, women and children ... sometimes unraveling humanity into an undesired mess.”

— Lynda I Fisher

“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

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

— Geoffrey Ward

There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of ourselves and…

— Christopher Tunnard

“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

“The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire…

— Hermann Hesse

“a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.”

— Sister Nivedita

“Whether or not it has fully dawned on society, the reality is that Gen Y will soon have to assume the responsibility for a…

— Charlie Caruso