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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

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.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.