We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
History is a vast early warning system.
History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
While we read history we make history.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.