...history is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material

That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.

People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history.

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

Bagi kami kemiskinan bukanlah sesuatu yang perlu membuat malu. Kami semua orang yang berpikiran idealis.

...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.

Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say.

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it.

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.