A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.