Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

Nothing changes more constantly than the past

There is no such thing as a final draft of history.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

History is nothing but a procession of false absolutes.

One duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

History is what we would make of it.

Men live in history as never before …. we make and change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.

History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

History is a battleground... but it has always been the case. Remembering is a radical act. Choosing what is important and what belongs in the overstuffed metaphorical dustbin of history is of vital importance.

When you revise history, you lose it.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product.

History is easy to change.

History is written not only for posterity but by posterity as well.

Everybody rewrites history if he can.

We often do not get the first draft of history right.