„Note the startling regularity through history with which society martyrs the rebel in one generation and worships him in the next. Socrates, Jesus, William Blake, Buddha, Krishna — the list is as endless as it is rich.“

— Rollo May

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„The people who have really made history are the martyrs.“
— Aleister Crowley
„We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Jesus is eternally right. History is replete with the bleached bones of nations that refused to listen to him.“
— Jr.
„History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.“
— George Orwell
„A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.“
— Ronald Reagan
„The Communists base themselves on rich historical experience which teaches that obsolete classes do not voluntarily abandon the stage of history.“
— Joseph Stalin