Quotes About History

Mercadores Quando Napoleão, por despeito, chamava «país de comerciantes» à Inglaterra, ressurgia nele o remoto antagonismo entre o fidalgo que paga com o seu sangue e o lojista que paga com o ouro o sangue dos outros.

sono un uomo comune e quindi mi pare, parlando di me e dei miei, di fare un po' la storia dei milioni e milioni di uomini comuni che, con la loro assennata mediocrità, tengono in piedi la baracca di questo mondo. Quella baracca che gli uomini "eccezionali", gli uomini "fuori dal comune" tentano di scardinare con la loro genialità.

He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back — its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.

I have spent a great deal of time seeking documentary evidence which would support or contradict the Stangls' story of how they, and others like them, escaped from Europe; and the real facts, it turns out, are neither dramatic nor unequivocal; they are complex, ambiguous and merely prove again that in the final analysis, history is not made by organizations, but by individual men, with individual failings, and individual responsibilities

Secondo le accuse, le "streghe" erano donne che avevano rapporti con il diavolo, si dedicavano a riti satanici e si abbandonavano a folli orge. In realtà si trattava di donne esperte in medicina naturale, per lo più contadine che conoscevano le proprietà curative delle erbe, usate ancora oggi. Ma queste donne, accrescendo le loro conoscenze e capacità di aiutare la gente, che le apprezzava, si affrancavano dalla dipendenza da Dio e dalla Chiesa.

primeira metade do século vinte no fundo não terá sido nada senão isso: um confronto titânico entre artistas. Estaline, Hitler, Churchill. Depois chegaram os burocratas

a primeira metade do século vinte no fundo não terá sido nada senão isso: um confronto titânico entre artistas. Estaline, Hitler, Churchill. Depois chegaram os burocratas

Se você é jovem, inteligente e se interessa por política, pense bem antes de estudar ciências políticas na universidade. Você deveria se interessar, em vez disso, em estudar matemática ou física. Num segundo momento você poderá entrar na política e terá conhecimentos mais úteis, com aplicações infinitas [...] Pode-se sempre ler livros de história mais tarde, mas não é possível aprender matemática na hora que se quer.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

The past has been given to us,' Miss Hester said. 'The future must be built, as others have built our past.

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

It's a ridiculous story, of course, but history's full of ridiculous stories. 'You can't make this shit up,' one finds oneself saying, whenever the seemingly prosaic old world lifts the veil on its synchronicities. Meanwhile the seemingly prosaic old world shrugs: Hey, don't ask me. I just work here.

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing . . .

Live long enough and nothing is news. 'The News' is 'the new things.' That's fine, until a hundred years go by and you realise there are no new things, only deep structures and cycles that repeat themselves through different period details.

Naturally we looked at each other. Naturally the single second that passed was more than enough time to enjoy a purified intimacy, to note each other's details and feel the exact weight of each other's history. naturally our essences, peremptorily denuded, exchanged a stunned glance. Then I shot him in the face.

Any time you design a character for a Disney picture, especially a fairy tale, it's going to become the definitive design for that character, so you don't want to hack something out. You need to put in the kind of care it warrants if it's going to live in history.

After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it." A critical moment in history has come; our Republic is in jeopardy. Can we keep it? If the answer to that question, as I fear, is "no," then we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine.

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

STORY" is more than half of the word "HISTORY". And that's no accident.

We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and math. Only 13 percent of high school seniors know what high school seniors should know about American history.