These 9 Forgotten Quotes From History Still Hit Hard Today
History isn’t just a collection of dates and events;
it’s a vast reservoir of human experience, filled with triumphs,
failures, wisdom, and folly.
And within that grand narrative lie countless voices, some celebrated,
others long forgotten, whose insights transcend their own time.
We often focus on the well-worn phrases, the iconic declarations,
but sometimes, the most potent truths are buried deeper,
waiting to be rediscovered.
These are the words that, despite the passage of centuries,
speak with an uncanny relevance to our modern struggles,
our enduring questions, and the timeless complexities
of the human condition.
This isn’t a stroll through a dusty archive;
it’s an archaeological dig for profound wisdom.
We’re going to unearth 9 forgotten quotes from history—voices
that deserve to be heard once more.
Here are the 9 quotes:
1. “When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
— Dresden James
2. “The enemy is not the barbarian at the gates. The enemy is the general who, after years of peace, still thinks the walls will hold because they always have.”
— Cicero
3. “Every revolution carries within it the seeds of its own tyranny. The oppressed become the oppressors, not by circumstance but by the intoxication of power they once condemned.”
— Marquis de Condorcet
4. “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
— George Orwell
5. “It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”
— Henry David Thoreau
6. “We have advanced in mechanics but regressed in humanity. We fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have forgotten how to walk the earth as brothers.”
— Martin Luther King Sr.
7. “A house divided against itself cannot stand. This government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”
— Abraham Lincoln (far more relevant today than when spoken)
8. “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
— Benjamin Franklin
9. “The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops—but the kind of man the country turns out.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
