There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
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.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The history of mankind is a history of war.
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.