Quotes About History

So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster. —IV:22

As for Gaius, he has no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse dry-shod across the Gulf of Baiae.

Punishment was meted out to the Christians (from AD64), a group of individuals given over to a new and harmful set of superstitions.

Afghanistan is the Graveyard of Empires. Afghanistan is a swamp, the more you move, the more you bog down.

You bastard! You have brought up the sorrow my family has tried so hard to put behind us!" Cyrus shouted angrily, ignoring the constables hastening toward him.

All told, in the colonial period, Europeans increased their share of global GDP from 20 to 60 per cent, Hickel points out. 'Europe didn't develop the colonies. The colonies developed Europe.' The Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle sums it up: 'We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them.

The whole system of visas and borders is less than a hundred years old; it only came into force in most places after World War II.

The gang war will never end. Because at it's core , it is not the gangsters against the police or the gangster against another. It is a young man with a Mauser against history personal and political, it is revolution one murder at a time.

History is a record of many such irrationalities.

As for unmarried women, I have no idea where they are buried. For a very long time, in Korea, no one talked about them.)

Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.

History is His story. You haven't heard my story.

Most white Minnesotans have forgotten that they were strangers here once. Or that they are not native to this land.

Black exists only because America is White.

There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women. I hope the twentieth century will see the triumph of our cause.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

in an age when most people get their history from TV and movies, we are losing our collective sense of "what really happened.

Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe.

WITCH. The useful acronym stood for Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, but it could also mean Women Inspired to Tell their Collective History, Women Interested in Toppling Consumer Holidays, and a host of imaginative variations. Proclaiming that witches were the original female rebels, hounded, persecuted, and burned at the stake because they had knowledge that men wanted suppressed, WITCH devoted itself to hit-and-run guerrilla theater, called "zaps.

A criminal history was like a credit card with interest—so what if you paid off the balance, the interest still kept accruing. And accruing and accruing and accruing.