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A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.

I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.

How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! And how much the best!

1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.