History Quotes

"History is the arbiter of truth; time reveals all secrets."

"The civilized world advances through the sacrifice of its finest minds."

"The wheel of history turns on the axis of human determination."

"The great event of the nineteenth century was not the Industrial Revolution but the revolution in the production of knowledge."

"The goal of my work has been to show people that a lot of things that seem natural to them have a history."

"To understand the present, we must understand the genealogy of how we arrived here."

"The archive is the system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events."

"Sexuality is a historical construct, not a biological given."

"The genealogical method reveals not essences but accidents that have solidified into apparent necessities."

"The archive preserves what it also forgets; absence is as significant as presence."

"The museum does not preserve the past; it constructs a particular version of it."

"To study history is to discover that what seems eternal is actually fragile and contingent."

"History shows that every right was won through struggle, never granted."

"Progress is not linear; every step forward is contested."

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

"The mode of production of material life determines the social, political and intellectual life processes."

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great events occur twice, so to speak."

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

"The capitalist mode of production came into the world dripping with blood and dirt."

"The development of industrial capitalism is the soil from which grows modern social consciousness."

"The purpose of studying the past is to understand the present and shape the future."

"The masses are the makers of history, not the great men."

"In revolutionary periods, the superstructure changes to accommodate new economic realities."

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

"The development of industry is necessary before socialism can emerge."

"The masses make history, though they are often unaware of doing so."

"The history of humanity is the history of its gradual emancipation."

"Historical progress is measured by the expansion of human freedom."

"History is written by those with power unless the people speak."

"It is true that the subaltern groups are necessarily fragmented and episodic in their existence."