history

history

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. Invisible Monsters
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. Collected Essays
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Study the past if you would define the future.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
History is written by the victors.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)
History is written by the winners.
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. Gandhi
You have to know the past to understand the present.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.