Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Journalism is in fact history on the run.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
It's a very good historical book about history.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.