Historic Ruins

Famous quotes containing the words historic and/or ruins:

“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces—in nature, in society, in man himself.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

“No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)