The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
History is a relentless master. it has no present, only the past rushing into the future. to try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
History is more or less bunk.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. cultivate peace and harmony with all.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. lies will pass into history.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
Read no history nothing but biography for that is life without theory.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.