History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.