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Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 9.6

Article · Newspaper

History is written by the winners.

1944

★ 9.1

Interview · Newspapers

History is more or less bunk.

1916

★ 8.9

Philosophical literature

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

The Life of Reason · 1905

★ 8.8

Essay · Historical literature · Political literature

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte · 1852

★ 7.1

Poem · Political literature

Who built the Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?... Where, the evening that the wall of China was finished Did the masons go?

Questions from a Worker Who Reads · 1936

★ 6.8

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words-that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 5.5

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

O Pioneers! · 1913

★ 5.5

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

On Heroes · 1840

★ 5.4

Essay · Magazine

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

1956

★ 5.2

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

John F. Kennedy. Remember him? He fucked Marilyn Monroe. Matter of fact, him and his brother Bobby fucked Marilyn Monroe. And history doesn’t talk about that much. You know why history doesn’t talk about that much? Because those two pages in history are stuck together.

Killin' Them Softly · 2000

★ 4.5

Political literature

At every step the natural light which illuminates their path grows dimmer and less secure; and that, in spite of all their efforts, they have as yet only discovered a small number of conflicting notions, on which the mind of man has been tossed about for thousands of years, without either laying a firmer grasp on truth, or finding novelty even in its errors.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 3.9

In historical events great men-so called-are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child.

46 BC

★ 3.8

Speech · Military speech

Think of it, soldiers; from the summit of these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

1823

★ 3.8

What I did that was new was to prove... That the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

1852

★ 3.8

Short story · Magazine

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

1857

★ 3.8

Political literature

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790

★ 3.7

Political literature

History is a relay of revolutions.

Rules for Radicals · 1971

★ 3.7

Interview · Biography

The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written.

Henry Kissinger

1972

★ 3.7

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