History Quote by William S. Paley

“History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and…

— Edmund Burke

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a…

— Aberjhani

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

— Cotton Mather

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

— Samuel Butler

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

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

History is the propaganda of the victors.

— Louis de Bernieres

“History is about winners, not about losers. History is about assessing distortions, not copying out truths. History has much to say about the way…

— J. R. Vincent

“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of…

— Patricia Hampl

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

— Leo Tolstoy

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

— Anselm Kiefer

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and…

— Edmund Burke