Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes

History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.

The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have read more

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in read more

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.