History Quotes

"History is constantly rewritten from the perspective of the present"

"Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity."

"Humanism has to be rooted in the history of peoples."

"The history of colonization is a history of broken consciences."

"The colonizer makes history; his life is an epic, an odyssey."

"The native in his struggle for national freedom necessarily refers to the past."

"The archive is never neutral; it always reflects and reinforces power relations."

"The archive of institutional memory contains resources for future liberation."

"History is not progress but multiplicities of failed attempts and new directions"

"History is not the past; history is the struggle for the future."

"Every epoch believes itself to be the epoch of enlightenment."

"History is not behind us but operates as a constant force in the present."

"The future is always constructed by rewriting the past."

"The archive is never neutral; it shapes what we remember and what we forget."

"The archive fever is the compulsion to preserve what is always already lost."

"Archives are not neutral; they shape what we can know about history."

"The past haunts the present in ways we struggle to articulate."

"We inherit colonial structures even when we oppose them intellectually."

"Archives encode the desires and fears of those who built them."

"History is not progress; it is a struggle for what will be remembered."

"Modernity is an incomplete project of enlightenment"

"Tradition is not to be rejected but critically engaged"

"The rationalization of society is both progressive and destructive"

"History repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce, then as entertainment."

"History is written by those who control desire."

"The molecular precedes the molar."

"History teaches us that the ruling powers have always used the most advanced knowledge."

"Those who do not learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them."

"The archive is not merely a collection of documents but a system of power."

"The historical process is a process of inclusion through exclusion."