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The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.