History Quotes

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"The history of mankind is the history of the struggle for happiness."

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

"The chain of historical causation is not broken by individual will"

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear twice; once as tragedy, once as farce"

"Go back as far as you like, there is prior history and no final cause"

"Revolutions are the locomotives of history"

"The past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"

"The driving force of history is the conflict between productive forces and relations of production"

"The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill gives you society with the industrial capitalist"

"History is the judge; its executioner is the revolutionary class"

"The dead govern the living more than we commonly acknowledge."

"Without historical perspective, we cannot truly understand the present or shape the future."

"History teaches that societies flourish when aligned with scientific truth about human nature."

"Historical study reveals patterns that help us avoid repeating past errors."

"Custom, then, is the most powerful of all laws."

"The opinion that trade in war is an amusement is peculiarly and eminently an English opinion."

"History is the gradual realization of human freedom and dignity."

"History repeats itself not through inevitability, but through human choice."

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

"History is not the soil of happiness."

"History is the progress of consciousness through time."

"To understand the present, one must understand the past."

"The purpose of studying history is not to discover a pattern but to awaken moral sensibility."

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

"The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."

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

"To be a revolutionary, one must understand the laws of history."

"Material conditions determine the form of society."

"History is a process of development toward freedom."