Freedom Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

History is at once freedom and necessity.

— Antonio Gramsci

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

— Avery Brooks

The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of…

— Vasily Grossman

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the…

— Dexter Perkins

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

— George W. Bush

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

— David Christian

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History is a means of access to ourselves.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr

“Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice,…

— Don DeLillo

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

— David McCullough