Historical Movement Quotes

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

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

History marched to the drums of a clear idea...

Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.

My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

The “real movement” of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.