Kick/history

Famous quotes containing the words kick and/or history:

“Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)

“History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)