Quotes About History

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

All men begin their learning with Homer.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

Even the word 'science' comes from an Indo-European root meaning 'to cut' or 'to separate.' The same root led to the word 'shit,' which of course means to separate living flesh from nonliving waste. The same root gave us 'scythe' and 'scissors' and 'schism,' which have obvious connections to the concept of separation.

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

Human nature doesn't change, Randy. Education is hopeless. The most educated people in the world can turn into Aztecs or Nazis just like that." He snaps his fingers.

But Jack was not Polish scum of the earth, barefoot and chained to the land, or even French scum of the earth, in wooden clogs and in thrall to the priest and the tax-farmer, but English scum of the earth in good boots, equipped with certain God-given rights that were (as rumor had it) written down in a Charter somewhere, and armed with a loaded gun.

if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

Other bits of England might be cramped, crowded, and cluttered, but only because all the available space had been claimed by this guest suite. It was situated right in Trinity College, and Richard guessed it had been laid out eight hundred years ago so that noble guests could ride their horses directly into the bedchamber and bring all of their squires and wolfhounds with them too.

I am an Aleut." "Oh, I've never heard of that." "That's because we've been fucked over," the big scary Aleut says, "worse than any other people in history.

there was nothing you couldn't accomplish if you crowded a few tens of millions of peasants together on the best land in the world and then never stopped raping their brains out for a thousand years.

No one thought about the big picture for a few thousand years. We were all scrambling to survive.

When later generations come to read about our history they will think they are reading a romance, and not believe a word of it.

The meeting would later be known as the Council of the Seven Eves.

Morse code didn't leave a paper trail, or an email thread on the screen of your tablet. She would never be able to scroll back and reread the exchange she'd just had with Rufus.

Let's to the Kit-Cat Clubb.

Now there are many Shaftoes—mostly in Tennessee—but the Shaftoe family tree still fits on a cross-stitch sampler.