(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.

World history is a court of judgment.

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.