History Quotes

"Religion is the opium of the masses." "I'm the most brutal and ruthless conqueror that ever lived" "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" "Men make their own history but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past" "Revolutions are the locomotives of history" "History is the memory of states" "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." "Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock." "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain" "I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse." "The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future." "You can't undo the past . . . but you can certainly not repeat it" "The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history" "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past" "It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order" "The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting" "History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods" "From the written word to sailing vessels, technology increases interconnectedness, helping to boost its own flow and spread. Each wave hence lays the groundwork for successive waves" "Throughout history, population size and innovation levels are linked" "Consider that children who grew up traveling by horse and cart and burning wood for heat in the late nineteenth century spent their final days traveling by airplane and living in houses warmed by the splitting of the atom"