Quotes About History

more evil has been carried out in the name of religion than any other force in human history.

The owner doesn't ask questions about where the painting has been. He's just happy to have it hanging on his wall again.

Wasn't it Moses who dispatched a team of agents to spy out the land of Canaan?" "History's first intelligence failure," said Gabriel. "Imagine how things might have turned out for the Jewish people if Moses had chosen another plot of land.

The first attempted coup in the history of the United States of America had failed.

Our president understands that he who controls history controls the future. - Sergei Korovin

Gabriel thought it was the darkest day in American history since 9/11, though somehow worse. The attack had been launched not by a distant enemy but by the occupant of the Oval Office.

That evening, a once-unfathomable sentence, composed by columnist Thomas L. Friedman, appeared in the New York Times: "There is overwhelming evidence that our president, for the first time in our history, is deliberately or through gross negligence or because of his own twisted personality engaged in treasonous behavior.

The marriage between hashish and terrorism," he said, "is as old as time itself. As you know, the word assassin is derived from the Arabic hashashin, the Shia killers who acted under the influence of hashish.

His civilization had flourished for thousands of years in the harsh and unforgiving land of Mesopotamia before anyone had ever heard of a place called America. And it would survive long after the great American experiment receded into history. Of this, Saladin was certain. All great empires eventually collapsed. Only Islam was forever. The

The Americans came in force, the French in style.

SI is Samuel Isakowitz, my father." Isherwood's voice choked with tears. "This painting was taken from my father's gallery on the rue de la Boétie in Paris by the Nazis in June of 1940." "You're certain?" Anna asked. "I'd stake my life on it." "Then please accept it, along with the deepest apologies of the Rolfe family." Then she kissed his cheek and said, "I'm so sorry, Mr. Isherwood.

It was stolen from the Jews on the way to the gas chambers, and I want it back.

nakba, the word the Arabs used to describe the catastrophe of their flight from the land of Palestine. The

back to the place where this all started." "Bandit Country?" "Jimmy Fagan's farm, to be precise.

weighty ashlars of the Western Wall.

six gun-type bombs, the last such weapons ever built.

Five Chimneys, by Olga Lengyel

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the word assassin is derived from the Arabic hashashin

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

When you're dealing with Switzerland, Mr. Allon, it's best to keep one thing in mind. Switzerland is not a real country. It's a business, and it's run like a business. It's a business that is constantly in a defensive posture. It's been that way for seven hundred years.

The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German.

To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept away. We went from superpower to basket case overnight.

We are tempted to think that we have reached the end of history, that it can never happen again. But history is made every day, sometimes by men of evil. And all too often, history repeats itself. (Holy Father, the Pope)