Every Bangladeshi until 1971 was a Pakistani and every Pakistani until 1947 was an Indian. |
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. |
History repeats itself because no one listens the first time. |
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. |
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. |
A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. |
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. |
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. |
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon. |
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. |