Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, century and/or empire:
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Sublimity is the echo of great mind.”
—Longinus (3rd century A.D.)
“An empire is an immense egotism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)