"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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2/28/17

Quotes on HISTORY



“A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.” ~Sioux Proverb

"America's concept of friendship with nations is only for its own convenience and exploitation. It has had no permanent friends, only permanent interests. Geopolitical history since the Cold War, attests to that fact. It is a friend that stabs you in the back, as it did with the Philippines in 1986. …And that, we will never forget!." ~Gil Peralta, January 2020

"At this point in Philippine history, reform must no longer be eventual. It has to now be inevitable. It was never about regime change. It was always about systemic change." ~Joffre Balce

"Before I say goodbye to this world, I want to straighten out the wrongs in our history to restore the old happy and prosperous life of Filipinos. This is what I promised to former President Marcos and to the Filipinos." ~Juan Ponce Enrile

"Change is painful. It involves giving up comfortable old ways and habits. It is often said that the only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn." ~David G. Pumphrey

"Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture." ~Ibrahim Bnbanjida 

"Filipinos owe nothing to the Aquinos. They bastardized this nation's wealth, raped our liberty and force-fed us with false history!" ~John Paolo Nartatez, August 3, 2019 on Philippines

"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections." ~Johan Huizinga

"History has shown us that terrorists and corrupt politicians are -CLEARLY- afraid of education because education will teach people how to demand and call for their rights using peaceful ways. Education will also give the oppressed the necessary means and knowledge to fight their oppressors." ~Miriam Defensor Santiago

"History has something to TEACH those who want to learn from the mistakes and tragedies of the past." ~Pedro Kiamko

“History is a collection of agreed upon lies.” ~Voltaire, French philosopher 

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there." ~George Santayana

"History is a vast early warning system." ~Norman Cousins

"History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler." ~Henry Glassie

"History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. In most cases that is how it is suppose to apply. Yet in many, sadly it does not." ~via Ron Hastings

"History is philosophy teaching by example and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology." ~James A. Garfield

"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." ~Julian Barnes, 'The Sense of an Ending'

“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.” ~Henry Glassie, US historian (1941- )

"History is written by the victors." ~Winston Churchill

"History repeats itself, even if it's not a pretty story." ~Ayn Rand

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." ~Karl Marx

"History teaches us that man learns nothing from history." ~George Hegel

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." ~Sir Winston Churchill

“Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.” ~Meridel Le Sueur on Labor

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." ~Robert Fulghum

"If I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead." ~Roald Dahl

"It must not be perfection one seek in some bygone age in history but the lessons in the human endeavour for it. Hide not our recriminations, rather, learn from them." ~Jore Balce

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance." ~Woodrow Wilson

"Live out of your imagination, not your history." ~Stephen Covey

"Our enemy today may be faceless. But we are undaunted even in the face of the unknown. We are a race of people with a long history underlined by our heroes' bravery, strength and determination to be free." ~Mayor Sarah Duterte, on Philippine Independence Day, June 12, 2020

"Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp." ~Milton Friedman

"People afraid to confront their history and the changes ushered in despite them have truly reason to fear. You don't have to say much. Just watch them panic." ~Joffre Balce, 6 October 2018

"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently .” ~Charles Dudley Warner

"The best way to teach history is to teach its methodology and then allow students to raise their own questions and form their own conclusions and interpretations after being exposed to all narratives about the personality, period or event. The role of the teacher is as a guide and enabler, and not a proselytizer. A teacher can state his or her position but only as a particular interpretation and should in no way be construed as the only interpretation." ~Antonio P. Contreras

‪"The chaos of the modern world has made us all aware that man-made history is far off from the real truth! It's built on perspectives that only merit the author and his subjects." ~Leah C. Dancel‬, July 25, 2017

"… the function and purpose of a library has changed throughout the history of humanity to meet the needs and requirement of the people at time." ~Kylie Wardell, QLD, excerpted from The Diary Files 

"The good part in history are the people that's making it. Not the one who's writing it." ~Butch Valdez

“The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis the essential thing is the life of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and most subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers. We make our own epoch.” ~Carl Jung, “The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man”

"The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free." ~John F. Kennedy

“The HISTORY of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.” - Meridel Le Sueur, American writer, 1900-1996

"The history of mankind tells us that problems are not to be feared. What should concern us is refusing to face up to the problems and not knowing what to do about them." ~Xi Jinping, president of the People's Republic of China

"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." ~Georg Hegel

"There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth." ~Floyd Red Crow Westerman

"There's no history in the world that is not inked with human blood." ~Leah C. Dancel 

“They say that animals are incapable of feelings and reasoning. This is false. No living thing on earth is void of either. They also say that man is the most intelligent — and the most superior — species on earth. This is also false. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. It has been shown that both rats and monkeys learn from making errors, yet we have not. Our history proves this. All creatures on earth have the capacity to love and grieve the same way we do. No life on the planet is more deserving than another. Those who think so, are the true savages.” ~Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun.

"30 years after, the overwhelming feeling is one of betrayal and disillusionment. EDSA '86 is no longer the dream of peace and progress but the nightmare of corruption and apathy. It is one of the greatest con and one the most brazen swindle in the history of this country." ~Mark Lopez, A Calm Before Storm on EDSA Rally February 25,2017

"You may write me down in history, with your bitter, twisted lies;

You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'LL RISE!"
~Maya Angelou

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“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” ~Charles A. Beard

"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter." ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

"Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made--through disobedience and rebellion." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Historical awareness differentiates between the present past and the past present, and puts us in the position to discover the future in the past, to pick up past possibilities again to link them with the present future.” ~Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian

"Leaders, whether good or evil, are FOSSILS in history. They become our references and if we chose to check on them, it's our every right." ~Ricardo Perez, 7 June 2018

"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic." ~Bertrand Russell

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~George Santayana

"To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open the book that tells of her past." ~Dr. Jose P. Rizal

"Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history." ~Michel Foucault

"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects." ~Herodotus

"What experience and history teach is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." ~Georg Hegel, philosopher (The Philosophy of History, 1857, p. 6).

"What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race." ~Thomas Sowell

“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something. Our children and their children will ask us, ‘What did you do? What did you say?’ For some, this vote may be hard. But we have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of history.” ~John Lewis

"Without history, there is no memory. Without memory, there is no future. If we don't learn from the past, we repeat the same mistakes again." ~Max Eisen, now 91 Holocaust Survivor, then 15 in 1944 Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Poland. An excerpt from the movie: The Accountant of Auschwitz and his book: By Chance Alone

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