“we are not guiltless
long ago we became accomplices
of the history in the mirror”
Bei Dao (1949) contemporary Chinese (PRC) avant garde poet
"Accomplices", p. 89
The August Sleepwalker (1990)
“Whoever writes on world history, but not as a forensic history, becomes thereby an accomplice.”
Wer Weltgeschichte nicht als Kriminalgeschichte schreibt, ist ihr Komplize.
Bissige Aphorismen, S. 54
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Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) American political scientist
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
“While the whole world is attracted and distracted by unnecessary criticism, music writes history.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Mentre il mondo intero è attratto e distratto da critiche inutili, la musica scrive la storia.
Source: prevale.net
“If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.”
Eugen Weber (1925–2007) American historian
“History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
As quoted in The Observer (22 September 1957)
Context: What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.
“The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
Sunday after the war (1944), pub. New Directions.
J. B. Bury (1861–1927) Irish historian and freethinker
p. 82 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t2g73zj2z;view=1up;seq=100 <br class="br">The Ancient Greek Historians (1909)