Quotes About History

the forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present

T]he various stages and interests are never completely overcome, but only subordinated to the prevailing interest and trail along beside the latter for centuries afterwards.

Die Geschichte ist die wahre Naturgeschichte des Menschen.

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.

The history of all hitherto existing society2 is the history of class struggles.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

The separation between the Man of Labour and the Instruments of Labout once established, such a state of things will maintain itself and reproduce itself upon a constantly increasing scale, until a new and fundamental revolution in the mode of production should again overturn it, and restore the original union in a new historical form.

History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a world historical figure is its comedy.

Hay necesidad de una gran perspicacia para comprender que los conocimientos, las nociones y las concepciones, en una palabra, la conciencia del hombre, cambia con toda modificación sobrevenida en las relaciones sociales, en la existencia colectiva? ¿Qué demuestra la historia del pensamiento sino que la producción intelectual se transforma con la producción material?

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The history of all hitherto existing society1 is the history of class struggles.

The history of all hitherto existing society8 is the history of class struggles.

Hegel dice en alguna parte que todos los grandes hechos y personajes de la historia universal aparecen, como si dijéramos, dos veces. Pero se olvidó de agregar: una vez como tragedia y la otra como farsa.

Hegel nota in un passo delle sue opere che tutti i grandi fatti e i grandi personaggi della storia universale si presentano, per così dire, due volte. Ha dimenticato di aggiungere: la prima come tragedia, la seconda come farsa.

la même importance que la loi de la transformation de l'énergie pour les sciences naturelles, lui fournit ici également la clé pour la compréhension de l'histoire de la deuxième République française.

La historia de toda sociedad se resume en el desarrollo de los antagonismos de 1as clases, antagonismos que han revestido diversas formas en las distintas épocas. Pero cualquiera que haya sido la forma revestida por esos antagonismos, la explotación de una parte de la sociedad por la otra es un hecho común a todos los siglos anteriores.

That social revolution, it is true, was no novelty invented in 1848. Steam, electricity, and the self-acting mule were revolutionists of a rather more dangerous character than even citizens Barbés, Raspail and Blanqui. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand. The tradition of all past generations weighs like an alp upon the brain of the living

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

Lorsque le véritable but fut atteint, c'est-à-dire lorsque fut réalisée la transformation bourgeoise de la société anglaise, Locke évinça Habacuc.

History is the judge — its executioner, the proletarian. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856

La historia de todas las sociedades, hasta nuestros días es la historia de la lucha de las clases. Hombres libres y esclavos, patricios y plebeyos, señores y siervos, maestros y oficiales, en una palabra: opresores y oprimidos se enfrentaron siempre, mantuvieron una lucha constante, velada unas veces y otras franca y abierta, lucha que terminó siempre con la transformación revolucionaria de toda la sociedad o el hundimiento de las clases en pugna.

A machine condemned to devour books and then throw them , in a changed form , on the dunghill of history .

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