Determinism Quote by Terry Eagleton

“To acknowledge that history is not deterministic is to acknowledge that it is just a coincidence that most people today believe in nationalism, capitalism…

— Yuval Noah Harari

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

— Bernard DeVoto

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

— Erin Gruwell

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

“History has proven time and time again that "Silence is never a good advocate for Change.”

— Lawrence Sankar

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.”

— Aldo Schiavone

“If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism”

— J.M.Coetzee

“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize…

— Aldous Huxley

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to…

— John Robert Seeley

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

— Winston Churchill