History Quotes

"The power of humans depends on the power of our stories" "We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor eternal, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine" "One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations." "Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible" "If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past" "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history." "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime" "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual" "There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past" "The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand" "A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new" "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were"