Features Quote by Lawrence Lessig

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

— Joseph Joubert

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values,…

— Peter Drucker

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

— Julian Fellowes

Society itself is responsible for the degradation.

— Wole Soyinka

“One lesson to be derived from the study of institutional facts is this: everything we value in civilization requires the creation and maintenance of…

— John Rogers Searle

The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for…

— Simon Conway Morris

Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

— Dagobert D. Runes

“We have seen some of the mechanisms whereby culture serves the interests of power, including making something legitimate, moral, or common sense. One of…

— Wendy Griswold

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go…

— Karl Lagerfeld

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.

— Anonymous

“Imagine a society entirely absorbed in its own historicity. It would be incapable of producing historians. Living entirely under the sign of the future,…

— Pierre Nora

We have to get awakened to the fact that in recent decades, great destruction has been caused to our moral values as a result…

— Nirmala Srivastava