History Quotes

If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.