People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
Leave history to historians.