Quotes About History

When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall. It is at such a juncture that their chief mission is plainly visible, and that for a while the philosophy of number seems the only philosophy of history.

To pass in pursuit of an ideal from the barbarous to the civilised state, and then, when this ideal has lost its virtue, to decline and die, such is the cycle of the life of a people.

To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are in the hands of their admirers, and the cult of which they are the object is not notably different from that accorded to their predecessors.

The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought. The reason these great events are so rare is that there is nothing so stable in a race as the inherited groundwork of its thoughts.

To endow a man with faith is to multiply his strength tenfold. The great events of history have been brought about by obscure believers, who have had little beyond their faith in their favour. It is not by the aid of the learned or of philosophers, and still less of sceptics, that have been built up the great religions which have swayed the world, or the vast empires which have spread from one hemisphere to the other.

?üphesiz kalabal?klar, bir inanc?n yahut bir fikrin zaferi için kolayca canlar?n? fedaya kadar gidebilirler. Hemen hemen ekmeksiz ve silahs?z olarak Haçl? Seferleri esnas?nda oldu?u gibi, bir ilah?n mezar?n? tekrar ele geçirmek için, yahut 93'te oldu?u gibi vatan topraklar?n? savunmak için, harekete getirilirler. Elbette bu kahramanl?klar biraz ?uursuzdur, fakat tarih böyle kahramanl?klarla yap?l?r.

Were peoples only to be credited with the great actions performed in cold blood, the annals of the world would register but few of them.

history is scarcely capable of preserving the memory of anything except myths.

Les événements mémorables de l'histoire sont les effets visibles des invisibles changements de la pensée des homes

Les événements mémorables de l'histoire sont les effets visibles des invisibles changements de la pensée des hommes.

Food became one of the primary tests the Spaniards and the Aztecs used on each other to determine if the other side was amigo or foe. Moctezuma

La América Tropical stayed hidden from public view and history until the 1960s, by which time the elements washed enough white away so that ghostly outlines emerged. The mural is currently undergoing a restoration effort sponsored by a new generation of city fathers, its promise intimidating: you can hide the Mexican, but the Mexican will emerge.

The United States in the 1890s was in the midst of a tamale man invasion that strolled hand in hand with the chili con carne craze.

The oldest city in the United States is St. Augustine, Florida, founded by Spaniards in 1565,

The oldest American capital is Santa Fe, founded in 1609, over 150 years before the United States was even born and almost 250 before the United States eventually conquered what's now the Southwest from Mexico.

While the tamale dates to the foundation of civilizations in Meso-America, food historians will forever debate the origins of chili. Only

1954, when the Eisenhower administration launched a program to deport all illegal immigrants. But America being America, la migra rounded up Mexican-Americans, legal immigrants—anyone who was brown, really. The program's name? Operation Wetback. The American experience is cyclical, of course, so expect Americans to soon begin calling Mexicans Sensenbeaners.

We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.

History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.

The unqualified affirmation of the universal will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.

The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.

Hindsight is an exact science.

Lives do not have plots, only biographies do.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.