Quotes about the past

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

George Orwell

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied’.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

Malcolm X

Because fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Ernest Hemingway

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired – thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Walter Scott

If you’re looking for a deep album or you’re looking for me to talk about past situations, it’s not even about that. It’s just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

Sean Combs

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.

Peter Drucker

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.

Niccolo Machiavelli

In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all these things.

Blaise Pascal

The vision is about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past

Bill Gates