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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
Malcom X
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.
Albert Camus
Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history's sake we shouldn't keep him there.
Ernest Hemingway
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman
Peace through Strength, surely history's most exploded nostrum.
Christopher Hitchens
I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
Daniel Day-Lewis
A king is history's slave.
Leo Tolstoy
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Lawrence Durrell
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx
What experience and history teach is this--that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
G. W. F. Hegel, The Philosophy o
In all things there is a law of cycles.
Tacitus
Posterity gives every man his true value.
Great men are the inspired (speaking and acting) texts of that divine Book of Revelations, wherof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
Thomas Carlyle
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
Carter G. Woodson
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Jacques Chirac
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Zedong
I like American history.
Kevin Costner
