“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
“The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.”
“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.”
“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
Source: Essential Works of Lenin:
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.”
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”
“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”
Source: By any means necessary
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
Source: Collected Works
“Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.”
Source: All's Fair:
“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
Source: Letters, Addressed to His Wife
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
“Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.”