Historical Force Quotes

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

The Russian Orthodox Church, being part of the one Universal Church of Christ, shall have the pre-eminent public and legal status among other confessions in the Russian State, which befits her as the greatest shrine for the overwhelming majority of the population and a great historical force that built the Russian State… As soon as they are made public, decrees and statutes issued the Orthodox Church for herself in the order established by herself, as well as deeds of the church government and court shall be recognised by the State as legally valid and important unless they violate state laws… State laws concerning the Orthodox Church shall be issued only with the consent of the church authorities

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

For [Karl] Marx, science was a creative, historic and revolutionary force.

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.