Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or century:
“The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.”
—E.L. (Edgar Lawrence)
“They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)