“He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.”
− George Orwell
“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.”
− Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
“History repeats itself; that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.”
− Clarence Darrow (1857 – 1938)
“Women with pasts interest men … they hope history will repeat itself.”
− Mae West (1893 – 1980)
“History,’Stephen said,’ is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
− James Joyce (1882-1941), Ulysses
“History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn’t there.”
− Gomez de la Serna (1888-1963)
“To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.”
− Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. ”
− Karl Marx (1818–1883) & Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)
“But, when nothing subsists from a distant past, after the death of others, after the destruction of objects, only the senses of smell and taste, weaker but more enduring, more intangible, more persistent, more faithful, continue for a long time, like souls, to remember, to wait, to hope, on the ruins of all the rest, to bring without flinching, on their nearly impalpable droplet, the immense edifice of memory.”
− Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
