You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.