| Woe unto the defeated,
whom history treads
into the dust.
Arthur Koestler
Perhaps nobody has changed the course of
history as much as the historians.
Franklin P. Jones
The middle sort of historians (of which the
most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
Michel de Montaigne
Take from the altars of the past the fire
- not the ashes.
Jean Jaures
History is never above the melee. It is not
allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
Allan Nevins
Until lions have their historians, tales
of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
African Proverb
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds
in creating an appropriate past?
John Leonard
Men have need of history because, without
it, the past threatens to overwhelm them.
Guy Fregault
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute
its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet
I see History as a relay race in which one
of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage
further the challenge of being a man.
Romain Gary
History is never antiquated, because humanity
is always fundamentally the same.
Walter Rauschenbusch
Historians of literature like to regard a
century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different
way.
Richard Ellman
The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's
dead body.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
History is the transformation of tumultuous
conquerors into silent footnotes.
Paul Eldridge
Man watches his history on the screen with
apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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