Famous Quotes

"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created."

William Morris on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by William Morris

• "I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."

• "So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die."

• "History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created."

• "If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."

• "I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."