Shah/history

Famous quotes containing the words shah and/or history:

“Varis Shah says habits don’t die even if we are cut into pieces.”
—Varis Shah (18th cent.)

“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.... It is not “history” which uses men as a means of achieving—as if it were an individual person—its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)