Environment Quote by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and…

— Anonymous

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.

— Jim Leach

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

— Winston Churchill

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”

— Joseph Schumpeter

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

— Gerda Lerner

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

— Helmut Lang

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

“To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter — only the present, the awareness…

— F. Sionil José

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones…

— Carroll Quigley

“history does not tolerate a vacuum. If incidences of famine, plague and war are decreasing, something is bound to take their place on the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our…

— Herbert Butterfield