Quotes About History Quotes

“The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future."

- Warmaster Horus”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“My comments are historical in nature and are not overtly political, although politics are directly responsible for the outcome of History.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“Carthago delenda est.
How many humans would know what those words meant? How many Terrans, whose world had birthed them, and how many on the thousands of newly populated and rediscovered orbs, all frantically developing and building and reaching upwards to a dimly understood but fantastically powerful future? Just a handful, maybe, who had access to lost books written in dead languages. History had a penchant for repeating itself, though, for rehearsing old patterns in ever grander circuits even if the participants had forgotten their origins.”
― Chris Wraight, Jaghatai Khan: Warhawk of Chogoris

“The past is not ours to own. We think, because we can remember it, that it belongs to us, that we can go back to it, that we are the same person who lived those moments, breathed that air, and made those choices.
We are not the same.
We are a stranger living with memories that belong to someone else.
And the past belongs to itself.’
– Kallista Eris, from manuscript notes on the development of history, suppressed”
― John French, Ahriman: Unchanged

“Mankind, in my experience,’ he said, ‘and I think we can at least accept I have more experience of it than most… Mankind has proven to be pathologically incapable of learning from its own mistakes. It blithely remembers the witness of history, but it does not apply the knowledge it gains. The Age of Strife was a terrible thing, inflicted by man upon man. Those few of us who lived through it, and survived it, no matter what part we played, no matter what crimes we committed, we all looked on it during the last years of its horror and said never again. Never again can we do this to ourselves. Yet, mere centuries later, Terra is about to fall, Terra and the galaxy with it, at the hands of engineered humans turning against their creator. This siege, your war, it is self-inflicted.”
― Dan Abnett, Saturnine