History Quotes About the Past & Its Lessons – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

Robert Smithson

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Baruch Spinoza

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Bernard Baruch

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Alice Walker

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Al Gore

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.

Martin Feldstein

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Arthur Koestler

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

Vito Fossella

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Rebecca West

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

Roger Mahony

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

John Guare

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

Nancy Pelosi

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Peace Pilgrim

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

Herbert Read

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Harold Pinter

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Les Brown

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

Ed Gillespie

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Arthur Erickson

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

Marianne Williamson

This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

Helen Thomas

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

John Eaton

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Robert Anton Wilson

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Vladimir Nabokov

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Oliver Stone

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

Paul Wellstone

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

James A. Baldwin

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Arthur C. Clarke

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

Constance Baker Motley

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

Tim LaHaye

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

Ed Markey

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.

Jane Byrne

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Felix Frankfurter

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Philip Emeagwali

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Tryon Edwards