Famous quotes containing the words history and/or origins:
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)