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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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.
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
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.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.