Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or era:
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)