Donald Kagan Quotes

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan

Ignorance, Past, America

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
Donald Kagan

Time, History, Special

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
Donald Kagan

History, Story, Telling

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
Donald Kagan

Time, True, Different

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
Donald Kagan

History, Experience, Human

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.
Donald Kagan

Politics, Whole, Degree

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
Donald Kagan

History, Born, Accident

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.
Donald Kagan

Yourself, Live, Prejudices

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Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: 1932

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