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Cynical Definitions

n. An account (mostly false) of events (mostly unimportant) which are brought about by rulers (mostly knaves) and soldiers (mostly fools).

n. The short period from Adam to atom.

n. The race between education and catastrophe.

Cynical Quotations

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

— Voltaire

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

— Lee Simonson

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

— W. R. Inge

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

— J.W. Schopf

History is a set of lies agreed upon

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

— Leo Tolstoy

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

— Paul Harvey