History Quotes

"For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees" "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history" "What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past" "I've known rivers" "The past is never dead It’s not even past" "One of the strange things about old beliefs is that they are, as a rule, robust " "One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present " "I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? " "You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall" "Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times" "To survive, you must tell stories" "One is allowed to change the past, but only in the libraries." "The history of the world is but the biography of great men" "Economic conditions, cultural avarice, and the exploitation of memory colonized the text before it was even set down" "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child" "Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter" "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity" "112"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of the past centuries" "Only the dead have seen the end of war " "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."