#history

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#history #pageant #philosophy

Libraries are not made, they grow. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#grow #libraries #made

That great dust-heap called 'history'. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#called #great

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. ↗

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#history #like #story #telling #way

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#main #main thing #make #thing #write

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#end #even #history #like #market

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group. ↗

— Harold Evans

#been #between #group #history #individual

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#case #having #history #i #looking

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#end #europe #far #first #first step

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#catharsis #expressed #grassroots #history #how