Quotes About History

Après l'avoir condamnée, l'Église a fait de la pensée de Thomas d'Aquin sa doctrine officielle. Elle lui a assuré à la fois une gloire sans égale mais l'a aussi enfermée dans une espèce d'enfer dogmatique dont il n'est pas sûr qu'elle soit aujourd'hui sortie.

The Reformation thus does not call for celebration. It calls for sorrow, repentance, and reconciliation.

Ner'zhul... Gul'dan. Two of the darkest names ever to sully the history of my people. And yet, Drek'thar tells me that once Ner'zhul was admired, even beloved, and truly cared for the people whos spiritual leader he was. It is hard to reconcile those words with what Ner'zhul has become, but I try. I try because I want to understand. And yet, try as I might... I do not.

Joan" was an Anglicized pronunciation of the French "Jeanne

History taught that those who had power were generally loath to relinquish any of it unless they were forced to do so.

Archaeologist, adventurer — I saw the Indiana Jones movies. They are the same.

La Tour d'Argent (15 quai Tournelle)

We've never heard About a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have lived In history can't measure up In bravery against the Maid.

We're all products of our past…

It stems from hundreds of years ago, a law handed down in our family generations ago. The Saldi family in Sicily murdered the Ferraro family, killing as many members, men women and children, as they could. The decree that we don't all gathering one place was passed down by those surviving that massacre. It was a long time ago, just history really, but we still abide by that rule.

Years ago women were nothing, Eloisa. They had no rights. They couldn't own property. They were property. That changed because it wasn't right. Children were beaten regularly by parents. That changed because it wasn't right. Just because something is tradition, handed down from one generation to the next, doesn't make it right.

At her tender age she was incapable of understanding such a history

In spite of every precaution to preserve my privacy, some details of my surgery did leak out in the press...it was an extremely personal and intimate procedure in my medical history, I had no wish to share its details with the rest of the world, any more than a complete hysterectomy would be advertised by another woman.

The past was yesterday, and yesterday had ended last night.

Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.

Time removes us from all texts and subtexts and so cripples our ability to detect tacit references—which is why, as history marches on, annotated editions of the classics, including the Bible, become longer and longer.

Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some of which he can remember, but the most he is having trouble remembering. History is transforming the past to a story that the person tells himself. Sometimes, the story stems from the past, but even the most sincere patient's history is more like a myth. (Translated from the Hebrew edition).

Historian and psychoanalyst are experienced in the discovery of things done in the past. They know how to find hidden details, but once they are brought into the light of day, these details, although of course subject to interpretation, are too polysemous to stay in any one subjectivity's perspective. The discoveries – when true ones – displace the finder.

Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best reason for being homosexual, it and love.

the testimonies of especially Höss and to some extent Eichmann are confused, contradictory, self-serving, and not credible. -- The Origins of the Final Solution , page 544

As with any detailed eyewitness testimonies after so many years, Eichmann's various accounts differ from one another and are not free of puzzling contradictions with other evidence. -- The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem, 2004), page 363.

by the 1790's an average American over fifteen years old drank just under six gallons of absolute alcohol each year. . . . The comparable modern average is less than 2.9 gallons per capita. We

Two people died for every one who made it to the auction block, he said.

THE BUSINESS OF SELLING SLAVES had been changing in Charleston. It was no longer as picturesque as it had been when William Makepeace Thackeray first visited. In 1856, the city decided the auctions near the Old Exchange and Custom House were out of hand, and the various slave brokers started opening up their own showrooms, with pens outside to hold the chattel.