History Quote by Emil M. Cioran

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

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

— Anonymous

“generations have laid before them. One thing is certain: If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will…

— Timothy Snyder

“A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old… And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing…

— Halldór Laxness

“GenerationS is not just reaching My Generation or even the Next Generation. But it is reaching many GenerationS.”

— Cecilia Chan

“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly…

— Theodore Zeldin

“History is written by every generation. Every generation writes its own history using the same sources. The interpretations vary according to time.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“The wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it. ”

— Frantz Fanon

“Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition,…

— C.S. Lewis

This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to…

— Richard St. Barbe Baker

“Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.”

— John Logan