History Quote by Timothy Snyder

“generations have laid before them. One thing is certain: If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will…

— Timothy Snyder

“If young people do not begin to make history, politicians and inevitability will destroy it.”

— Timothy Snyder

“If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And to make history, young Americans will…

— Timothy Snyder

“In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.”

— Daniel Prokop

“We have fallen upon evil times and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful…

— King Naram-Sin of Chaldea 3800 B.C. inscription found on an ancient tablet in a Constantinople meseu

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can,…

— Richard P. Feynman

“It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of maturer age are already sunk into corruption.”

— Anonymous

“The second antihistorical way of considering the past is the politics of eternity. Like the politics of inevitability, the politics of eternity performs a…

— Timothy Snyder

“Time changes and our history fades. The young forget about the old and the old never forget the young.”

— Zachary Frerichs

“History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it’s never enough. You also must run.”

— Frank Herbert

“What is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is…

— Hermann Hesse