“Progress is hard on history.”

“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.”

“History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!”

“The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.”

“The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of necessity. Freedom is necessity overcome. Progress is, in essence, the progress of human freedom. Yes, and after all, life itself is freedom. The evolution of life is the evolution of freedom.”

“It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations.”