History Quotes

Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.

18227 quotes

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