Tower/history

Famous quotes containing the words tower and/or history:

    “Resignedly beneath the sky
    The melancholy waters lie.
    So blend the turrets and shadows there
    That all seem pendulous in air,
    While from a proud tower in the town
    Death looks gigantically down.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

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