People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.