Quotes About History

The slide changed to a picture of Kattan walking down a narrow cobblestone street, head down and collar up against what appeared to be a stiff wind. "This was taken yesterday in southern Spain. Granada to be precise.

This was taken yesterday in southern Spain. Granada to be precise.

MOSCOW RUSSIA

MADRID SPAIN

In truth, the natural state of humanity was chaos. The Americans had just managed to hold it at bay over most of their short history.

WEST OF MANASSAS VIRGINIA USA

every human culture is created by fear

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

On July 6, 1906, Lovecraft acquired a used Remington typewriter. He never, however, took the next logical step: to learn to type by touch. All his life, he typed with his two forefingers, as did many writers of his generation like H. L. Mencken.

The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.

It went on like that till some guys got together and came up with the one-god thing—him being God, the Father, and male and all that—and things went downhill for girls ever after that, far as I can figure. It was always, 'Get in your dress, girl, your smock, your shift or your burnoose or your veil, but whatever it is, girl, put it on and shut the hell up,' is how I see it.

The past is a losing battle that we can´t demand rematches.

He looked at her then, and she could see he wasn't afraid. "Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten," he said.

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

Les mille ans du Moyen-âge ont été la durée du grand deuil Chrétien.

I refuse to tell myself that all the work of the past has been worthless, and that everything remains to be done. No, much has been done, and you have no right to deny it to yourselves and to disavow those efforts today.

Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.

History would not be what it is, the record of man's crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.

Ladislas Farago

Násilí se nikomu nevyplácí. S tím se m?že vysta?it jen krátkou dobu, ale d?jiny se jím psát nedají. žijeme v civilizovaném sv?t?, v Evrop?, ve dvacátém století

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

when the victors rewrite history, it's just another kind of war, waged after the battlefield killing is done to murder the memory of the defeated.