History Quotes
Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.
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"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"This is the way the human race has always worked."Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
"The patterns of this war repeat endlessly."Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
"The Empire is dying. That's the one lesson history teaches us"Hari Seldon
"History is written by those who understand psychohistory"Hari Seldon
"The Fall of the Empire is inevitable, but what rises from its ashes is not"Hari Seldon
"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"History is written by survivors."Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought"Hari Seldon
"There's no escape: we pay for the violence of our ancestors."Estraven
"The past informs the future, but does not determine it"Hari Seldon
"History is a set of lies agreed upon."Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"In the Age of Legends, before the Tyrant, there were still machines."Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"They came first."Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
"History is written by those who remain"Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"They have always used young people to fight wars."Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
"I'm not the first person to be abandoned on a hostile world."Mark Watney
"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors"Paul Atreides
"History teaches perspective."Ryland Grace
"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"The past was more valuable than we realized."Wade Watts (Parzival)
"The past teaches us that survival often requires sacrifice."Ye Wenjie
"History is written by the victors"Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"History is written by those who survive."Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"History is littered with the bones of civilizations that ignored their prophets."Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"In the book of Arrakis, there is a history of violence."Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
"There is no escape. We pay for the violence of our ancestors."Paul Atreides
"We are all slaves to our histories."Gaius Helen Mohiam
"The past is prologue to the present."Sherlock Holmes
"The past always returns to haunt you"Henrik Vanger