History Quotes

Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.

18227 quotes

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"We're not just doing this for fortune and glory. We're doing it for history."
Indiana Jones
I
"The past teaches us about the present."
Indiana Jones
I
"The past shouldn't be forgotten."
Indiana Jones
P
"History shows us that empires fall when they lose sight of their people."
Princess Leia
P
"History teaches what we must not repeat."
Princess Leia
Y
"History, learn from it we must."
Yoda
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"Remember those who came before."
Luke Skywalker
D
"History will remember me as supreme."
Darth Vader
H
"I've seen empires rise and fall."
Han Solo
P
"We must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it."
Princess Leia
D
"History teaches us that change requires courage and persistence."
Diane Ravitch
D
"History is not a set of facts to memorize; it is a story to understand."
Diane Ravitch
D
"History warns us about the dangers of inequality and injustice."
Diane Ravitch
D
"We learn from history, but only if we study it honestly."
Diane Ravitch
H
"Difference and repetition are central to understanding colonial discourse."
Homi Bhabha
H
"Colonial discourse produces both the colonizer and the colonized."
Homi Bhabha
H
"Modernity is not uniform but takes different forms in different contexts."
Homi Bhabha
H
"The postcolonial must be understood in relation to its colonial conditions."
Homi Bhabha
H
"The colonial archive reveals the contingency of colonial authority."
Homi Bhabha
H
"The postcolonial condition involves both rupture and continuity with the colonial past."
Homi Bhabha
H
"The colonial archive reveals both the power and the fragility of colonial discourse."
Homi Bhabha
H
"The colonized subject can never fully escape the traces of colonial history."
Homi Bhabha
D
"History teaches us that privatization of public goods rarely serves the public interest."
Diane Ravitch
P
"What we do today echoes through history."
Princess Leia
D
"You were once Anakin Skywalker, my former apprentice."
Darth Vader
M
"The study of history teaches us that transformation is always possible."
Maxine Greene
D
"History teaches us that public education is the foundation of a free society."
Diane Ravitch
D
"History shows that public education creates opportunity for all students."
Diane Ravitch
B
"History teaches us the lessons we refuse to learn."
Benjamin Bloom
B
"History is philosophy teaching by examples."
Benjamin Bloom