Guarantees Quote by Henry Giroux

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

— Bernard DeVoto

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

— George Orwell

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

— George Carlin

Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is…

— Michel Foucault

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

— Ai Weiwei

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

— Christopher Lasch

That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

— Emile M. Cioran

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.

— Marianne Moore

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

— Ludwig von Mises