Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
I've never been a social person.