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All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development

Friedrich Engels

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future

Stephen Spender

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Karl Marx

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

Well behaved women rarely make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

[History] may be called, more generally still, the Message, verbal or written, which all Mankind delivers to everyman.

Thomas Carlyle

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

George Santayana

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

Edward Gibbon

The course of History reflects a continual contest between limited, orderly processes of development and historical accident.

H. Cord Meyer

History would be an impossible area of human reflection if there were no recurrent attributes of human nature.

Willson H. Coates

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

Crane Brinton

"History" is the name we as human beings give to the horizon of consciousness within which we live.

Harvey Cox

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

David Hume

History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.

August Comte

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

Henry Adams

Patriotism ruins history.

Goethe

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

Jakob Burckhardt

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

James Harvey Robinson

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

Sir John Robert Seely

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

Herbert Hoover

A page of history is worth a volume of logic.

O. W. Holmes

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Benjamin Disraeli

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David C. McCullough

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