Fueled/history

Famous quotes containing the words fueled and/or history:

“The “real movement” of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.”
—Gertrude Himmelfarb (b. 1922)

“We aspire to be something more than stupid and timid chattels, pretending to read history and our Bibles, but desecrating every house and every day we breathe in.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)