“If anything, we are enslaved more as human beings now than at any time, probably, in man's history. But it is so sugarcoated, it's so slick, it's so polished.”
Anton LaVey
“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
Winston Churchill
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
Woody Allen
“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
Robert Francis Kennedy
“We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.”
Henry Ford
“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
C.S. Lewis
“History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero