Quotes About History

Jer - a to je mislim osnovna poruka sastavlja?a "Enciklopedije" - nikad se ništa ne ponavlja u istoriji ljudskih bi?a, sve što se na prvi pogled ?ini da je isto jedva da je sli?no; svaki je ?ovek zvezda za sebe, sve se doga?a uvek i nikad, sve se ponavlja beskrajno i neponovljivo. (Stoga sastavlja?i "Enciklopedije mrtvih", tog veli?anstvenog spomenika razli?itosti, insistiraju na pojedina?nom, zato im je svako ljudsko stvorenje svetinja.)

Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

The most beautiful things have character and experience built into them.

Conosco un paese che ha provocato ben due guerre mondiali in un secolo e ha proposto una «soluzione finale», e nessuno lo ha mai definito maledetto. Conosco un paese insensibile alla disperazione umana, che continua a ridurre alla fame l'intero pianeta forte del suo strapotere finanziario, e nessuno lo definisce maledetto. Anzi, si presenta al mondo come il popolo benedetto dagli dèi, o meglio da Dio. Allora perché mai Haiti dovrebbe essere maledetta?

My father tells me that the further you get away from an experience, the deeper it roots itself inside of you. Don't fool yourself, baby, he said. Time does not heal and history is not progressive.

Our eyes caught, and I saw her as she had been and would always be, a long-lost daughter of Mayflower histories, forever in motion, running from or toward an unutterable hideaway.

Origins sure are powerful and sh*t. You can't shake them.

My father's subject: the relationship between history and the individual. He believes everybody is an 'excretion' of his or her environment. That's the word he uses. Excretion.

Here's how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them.

Here's how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them. This fact bears repeating, as it does not come up at all in Anne Frank's writing. Readers of her diary are aware that the author was murdered in a genocide, but this does not mean that her diary is a work about genocide. If it were, it is unlikely that it would have been anywhere near as universally embraced.

In fact, Sauvage believes that the reason Fry is so unknown is precisely because he reveals U.S. complicity in the Holocaust. "We live on two myths—that we didn't know, and that we couldn't do anything even if we did know," Sauvage said to me as soon as I sat down in his office. "This is the religion, and it isn't true. We knew plenty and could have done a lot.

What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers?

Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?

Our theory has attempted to achieve this by operating on two levels. The first is the distinction between extractive and inclusive economic and political institutions. The second is our explanation for why inclusive institutions emerged in some parts of the world and not in others. While the first level of our theory is about an institutional interpretation of history, the second level is about how history has shaped institutional trajectories of nations. Central

Rich nations are rich largely because they managed to develop inclusive institutions at some point during the past three hundred years. These institutions have persisted through a process of virtuous circles. Even if inclusive only in a limited sense to begin with, and sometimes fragile, they generated dynamics that would create a process of positive feedback, gradually increasing their inclusiveness.

For Muslims, Jesus is seen as the messianic prophet they have claimed him to be. Islamic portraits of Jesus are said to parallel Q, James, and the Didache. Thus, we have a Jesus dynasty offered to a world in need of a less contentious religious history and engagement. Once again we have Jesusanity, not Christianity.

As New Testament professor Craig Blomberg observes, "What most distinguishes the work [Misquoting Jesus] are the spins Ehrman puts on some of the data at numerous junctures and his propensity for focusing on the most drastic of all the changes in the history of the text, leaving the uninitiated likely to think there are numerous additional examples of various phenomena he discusses when there are not" (2006).

SO WE SEE THAT THERE ARE MORE COMPELLING REASONS TO view the Jesus story as confirmation of the roots of Christianity from its early sources than there is proof of a well-rooted Jesusanity in this earliest period.

Lessing's ditch, which argues for a canyon between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith

between Jesus and history or between Jesus and the witness of his followers within history.

Postmillennialism expects the proclaiming of the Spirit-blessed gospel of Jesus Christ to win the vast majority of human beings to salvation in the present age. Increasing gospel success will gradually produce a time in history prior to Christ's return in which faith, righteousness, peace, and prosperity will prevail in the affairs of people and of nations.

A fourth factor is a larger sea change in the way we view history.With