“History is unkind to those it abandons, and can be equally unkind to those who make it.”
More from Salman Rushdie on History
“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.”
“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.”
“A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”
Others on History
Karl Marx
5 quotes“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all...”
Thomas Carlyle
4 quotes“The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.”
Otto von Bismarck
4 quotes“History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3 quotes“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
Barbara Tuchman
3 quotes“Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.”
Edmund Burke
3 quotes“History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.”
Dan Brown
3 quotes“The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past”
José Ortega y Gasset
2 quotes“The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.”
Edward Gibbon
2 quotes“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.”
Flaubert
2 quotes“Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.”
Heinrich Heine
2 quotes“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”
Chuck Palahniuk
2 quotes“You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remembe...”