No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
History Quotes
Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty.
The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a series of race murders.
I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age… has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
It is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
There is properly no history; only biography.
What we may be witnessing is not just the end of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.
The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall – think of it, always.
