Bags Quote by James Buchan

“Our consumer culture is organized against history. There is a depreciation of memory and a ridicule of hope, which means everything must be held…

— Walter Brueggemann

“History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through the minds…

— Priscilla Smith Robertson

No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old…

— Michael Parenti

“Modernity, in contrast, is based on the firm belief that economic growth is not only possible, but absolutely essential... Modernity has turned 'more stuff'…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could…

— George Orwell

“This conglomeration of decayed antiquity, collected with the disease of greed, surely invites our charity. It would be better to forget these trumpery ideas,…

— Austin Osman Spare

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a…

— Margaret Atwood

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

— Ralph Adams Cram

“Money is normative. So pervasive is its influence on our lives that it makes less moneyed ages incomprehensible, consigning them to barbarism or folklore.…

— James Buchan

All history is modern history

— Wallace Stevens

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

— William Pfaff

“What are we if we are not products of our history? History is not in our past but forms us in the present. And…

— H.O. Charles