Quotes on “history”

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The Master said, A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.(Analects 2.11)

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.