Romeo LeBlanc Quotes

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Societies perish when people forget where they come from.

You never know how history is going to view things.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

. As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history. A historical materialist must be aware of this most inconspicuous of all transformations.

Fifty years from now, if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books, we shall not exist.

The past has a lobby …; the future does not have a lobby.

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

History is a very powerful force.

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.