History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like it's not a big deal. That, to me, is a crime.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.