Present History Quotes
- We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we… — Regis Debray
- If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old… — Eduardo Galeano
- History is past politics, and politics is present history. — Edward Augustus Freeman
- The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- History is past politics; and politics present history. — John Seeley