Time Quote by Anthony Powell

“There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.”

— Sarah Dessen

“Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply…

— Christie Golden

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Their history wasn’t so far off the mean track, they were going through what a thousand other civilizations had gone through, and no doubt…

— Iain M. Banks

“Histories are instruments of oppression.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Their history is largely a record of crime, war, disease, and terror, with just sufficient happiness interposed to give them, while it lasts, an…

— C.S. Lewis

“To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter — only the present, the awareness…

— F. Sionil José

“It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people…

— Vladimir Odoevsky

“And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it…

— George Orwell

“the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.”

— C.Wright Mills

“Initiating change is not about the multitude; it’s about the audacity of a few, for history attests that the course of humanity has often…

— Shree Shambav

“Each people behaves as if it had reached the end of history.”

— Anonymous