It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world; and before history began, murderous strife was universal and unending.