“Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.”
“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.”
“Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.”
“The history of humanity is, to a very great extent, a history of violence.”
“I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death...”
“What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us.”