Quotes About History

The shengren is the single most important concept in Chinese history.

We must begin to find the untranslatables in each culture and return them to world history.

So this is how history gets rewritten, she thought. This is how it begins, with exaltation. Now it is not enough for a man merely to have been a man; now the etiquette of grief demands that we change him into a prince, a king. Now the flaws of a man have to be ironed out like creases in a suit, until he is spread out before us as smooth and unblemished as the day he was born.

Aunque el budismo es una de las religiones más antiguas, nunca ha habido una guerra en su nombre o por su doctrina.

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.

This was the greatest event in the war, or, in my opinion, in Greek history; at once most glorious to the victors and most calamitous to the conquered. They were beaten at all points and altogether; their sufferings in every way were great. They were totally destroyed—their fleet, their army, everything—and few out of many returned home. So ended the Sicilian expedition.

The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine I have written my work not as an essay with which to win the applause of the moment but as a possession for all time.

first half of the fifteenth century,

While the Union survived the Civil War, the Constitution did not.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

I am confident that when the role of national effort in the 1960s is written, when a judgment is rendered whether this generation of Americans took those steps . . . to make it possible for those who came after us to live in greater security and prosperity, I am confident that history will write that in the 1960s, we did our part.

Given that those sinning, raping plantation owners had both white babies and Black babies, everyone was six degrees from being one or the other. Which was what scared southern white people the most.

Lizette felt that since Belle Fleur was full of Black folks who looked white, numbers suggested that many whites could be Black. It was all a fine line in the South, she'd say. Given that those sinning, raping plantation owners had both white babies and Black babies, everyone was six degrees from being one or the other. Which was what scared southern white people the most.

I know you twist history to make things easier for you, but I've never made you do anything. Do you ever think about your role in all of this?

History doesn't repeat itself," said Shane. "But it rhymes." "Who said that? Nas?" "Mark Twain.

Our love became a casualty of my family tree

the past was a worthless human ability that had evolved for the sole purpose of reminding mortals of their mistakes.

perhaps we would engrave the words of Mahatma Gandhi, who once said, A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Gandhi, who once said, "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." Such were Irena and all her friends, and this is their story. Afterword Author's Note on the Story of Irena's Children

Everyone knew that Chanel was willing to play dirty when it came to the Jewish question. Her lawyer, René de Chambrun, the husband of Pierre Laval's fashionable daughter, Josée, was already helping her try to have her perfume company taken from the Jewish business partners to whom she had sold a majority stake in the early 1920s.

Most of those who tell you they were in the resistance are fabulists at best. The worst are simply liars. It was a frighteningly small movement, covert, secret, and the price of discovery was monstrous. After the war, everyone wanted to believe that they had supported it. It is a collective French national fantasy.

It was a story that, sadly, always had war at the heart of it.