Quotes About History

all eschatological interpretation of history, when united to a strong religious mentality cannot but produce the finest practical theological fruitage.

Por lo general, la teología se ha dividido en cuatro ramas: la teología exegética, la teología histórica, la teología sistemática y la teología práctica.

There's no truth in the idea that the Germans had closed ranks, or that they were terrorised by the SS and the Gestapo. Not at all: 60 per cent of the people were Nazis themselves.

De geschiedenis van de holocaust zit onder de vingerafdrukken van de moderniteit, van de maakbare maatschappij

Ik bezoek het veld waar de Royal New Foundland Regiment vrijwel compleet werd neergemaaid bij een onzinnige aanval, een geval van collectieve zelfmoord waarvan moslimfundamentalisten nog iets zouden kunnen leren.

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

He'd never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He'd never had to worry about these things before because he'd never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He'd been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history.

I hate this Gladiator shit," Sabin muttered. "Yes, well, where do you think the Romans learned from?" Sabin sputtered for a minute. "You're trying to tell me Harpies are responsible for this? That the Romans learned from them?" "I must try only if you are lacking intelligence.

I've been told history is written by survivors, but I know that isn't always true. My name is Tenley Lockwood and very soon, I'll be dead. This is my story—but my end is only the beginning.

But our present will always be the sum total of decisions made in our past.

Pretty much everyone took over the world at least once back in the day. I even thought about it a couple of times.

As Emerson observes, "The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry."4

Universal literacy, taken for granted today, was a direct result of the Reformation's reemphasis upon the centrality of Bible reading

history has shown that the removal of all restraints of reason and morality leads not to liberation but to fascism.

News is history shot on the wing.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Anthropologists describe tools as a cultural artifact.

In one case, we even found a ticket that Wes put in over ten years ago as a junior engineer, referring to some task for a machine that has been long since decommissioned.

If only we had a single view of the customer: top of funnel, bottom of funnel, as well as their complete history with the company. Not only what they purchased, but also what they did on our site, what they browsed, searched for, their credit card transactions, repair history … There's so much potential!

History is replete with turning points. You must have faith that the universe will unfold as it should - Spock

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.