Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, death and/or rise:
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (18181883)
“Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.”
—Pierre Bayle (16471706)
“Poor fellow never joyed since the price of oats rose, it was
the death of him.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and withal the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby.... The man is now a man.”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
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