Frank Herbert Quotes

Many try to force the past to change.

The control of the past depends above all on the training of memory

It will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

The past can be tamed and controlled.

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

As soon as the Confederates laid down their arms, some picked up their pens and began to distort what they had done and why. The resulting mythology took hold of the nation a generation later and persists.

In Russia, history is often written in pencil so it can be more easily erased.

Though God cannot alter the past, historians can.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product.

One duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

History is easy to change.

History courses made up of all facts and no interpretation are guaranteed to put kids to sleep…. History comes alive when viewed as a patterned story open to ongoing debate.

Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.

History usually repeats but it can be changed.

We don’t get to replay history.

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly, no matter what - I believe that we're going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.

Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

I don't think you can erase history.