History Quote by Gregg Herken

“History is of those who have struggled to be free and those who have struggled to control them.”

— T.S. Ransdell

“History reminds us of the inherent weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow human beings are capable of…

— John Fea

“People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past…

— Aporva Kala

“History is out of human control and moves forward without consideration of human life or human happiness.”

— FastReads

“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, /…

— Adrienne Rich

“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.”

— Alan Beattie

“History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.”

— Alison Goodman

“Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives”

— Dexter Perkins

“History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.”

— Donald Cameron Watt

“Only those who are bereaved of all joy in this present world may take refuge in the shadows of the past.”

— Julian May

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine…

— Yuval Noah Harari