History Quotes

"History is written by the victors, but truth belongs to the brave."

"The study of history is the best foundation for the study of philosophy."

"The masses do not make history; history makes the masses."

"History repeats itself until lessons are learned."

"History shows us that ordinary people create extraordinary change."

"History teaches that empires crumble but ideas endure."

"History will judge us not by our ambitions, but by our integrity."

"The greatest lesson history teaches is that injustice cannot endure forever."

"I am convinced that the species of statues has done more harm than good."

"History is the mirror in which peoples see the reflection of themselves."

"The old world is dying away and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters."

"The tradition of all past generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."

"History teaches those who are willing to learn."

"The popular classes are the makers of history even when history is not yet being made."

"The study of history is the study of human struggle and human possibility."

"The masses are not passive recipients of history but its active makers."

"The man described in history books is not the man in the street"

"The birth of the prison coincides with the birth of modern society"

"The history of sexuality is the history of control"

"To make history is to constantly shift the boundaries of the possible"

"One cannot reinvent oneself endlessly because one is constrained by historical conditions"

"Reason did not exist before the eighteenth century"

"History is not progress towards enlightenment but a series of ruptures"

"History is a series of presents interpreting the past"

"The archive is not a neutral collection but a structured system of what can be said"

"Modernity is not a historical period but an attitude towards the present"

"The past is not dead; it continues to structure the present"

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

"Constant revolutionizing of production distinguishes capitalism."

"Human history is the history of class struggle."