Chance Quote by Walter Bagehot

“History,” Bagehot wrote, “is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of…

— Roger Kimball

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

“Let us remember, for the progressive, historical progress is said to be a process of never-ending cultural and societal adjustments intended to address the…

— Mark R. Levin

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

— Raymond Queneau

There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end being a…

— Pankaj Mishra

Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery,…

— Anonymous

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

— Richard Lamm

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So,…

— Henry A. Kissinger

All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next world war…

— Friedrich Engels

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when…

— Anonymous

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr