Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
History Quotes
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music – and of aviation.
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of […]
History is concerned with time, space, and change. It is concerned with the unique person, with the unique event, and with their combination.
During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers but the robbers who have been in control of the world.
Historically, means cannot be separated from ends: they enter them and transform their nature.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Reason creates science; sentiments and creeds shape history.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
