“They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the…”— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you—you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, en.wikiquote.org
“All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwald, the Auschwitzes – all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, t…”— Rod Serling, en.wikipedia.org
“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.”— John Lydon, goodreads.com
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“I say study history, not the future. Study history to prepare for the future.”— Michel Foucault, monoskop.org
“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”— Hanif Kureishi, amazon.com