Flushing, Queens - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men. We do not like that kind of immortality, but what is to be done about it?”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)