What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.
The future knows what things we desire, unless there is something greater in our path that chases us away.
Love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.
You can read the whole future of mankind in the past.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
