History Quotes

If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I’m tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Without stones there is no arch.

It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.