The greatest sins in human history had been committed in the name of love.
You can wipe out a generation of people, you can burn their homes to the ground, and somehow they’ll still come back. But if you destroy their achievements and their history, then it’s like they never existed. Just ash floating. That’s what Hitler wants. And it’s the one thing we simply can’t allow.
The history of man is defined by war. And war by the men who fight it.
You, my friends, are following in some very famous footsteps. A histroy made famous by George Everest, George Mallory, Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary…
You know, coming back in time, changing history, that’s cheating.[to Spock Prime]
Yeah, well, history is going to change.[Mr. Strickland: No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley.]
Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.
History is a long list of losses. It’s just a question of whose.
You make history, I make money.[to Will]
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always.
Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
People need their history. It gives them strength. They need to know that real men actually lived here. Not ghosts and storybook legends, people who faced adversity and overcame it.
