History Quote Generator

“ Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. ”

~V. S. Naipaul

“ To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' ”

~V. S. Naipaul

“ This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. ”

~John Perkins

“ In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. ”

~Salman Rushdie

“ There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. ”

~Salman Rushdie

“ Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. ”

~Mao Zedong