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“What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On...”
“Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone ...”
“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
“How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another”
“There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.”
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
“The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark ...”
“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others...Yet this music, the sound of this ...”
“Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.”
“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make t...”
“No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to”
“It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.”
“The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.”
“And I thought:History is like a horror story.”
“What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other”
“Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.”
“What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't...”
“When he asked if she was okay, her eyes welled with tears and she said, “Like I’m always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can’t do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember...”
