Sanjaya Baru Quotes

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Never underestimate how history injects itself into the present.

He who wants to make history bear on politics must be sure that his history is objective; otherwise, history will not influence politics, but rather politics history.

I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

History is only a value of relation.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.