“History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.”
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“Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”
“I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.”
“I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.”
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
“We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.”
“I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.”
“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”
“History is written by the victors.”
“History should be written as philosophy.”
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
“Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.”
“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.”
“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”
“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”
“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”
“The history of art is the history of revivals.”
“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”
“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.”
“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”
“The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.”