Quotes About History

thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession.

How did it ever get to be that bad? I think something happened to Germany after the Great War. You could see it on the streets of Berlin. A callous indifference to human suffering.

Everyone in Germany was somebody different before March 1933. And as I'm always saying, 'Who isn't a National Socialist when there's a gun pointed at his head?

Americans were different: even after they'd dropped a couple of atom bombs on the Japs, they still wanted to be liked. Which struck me as just a little naive.

Nuremberg.' 'Well sir, it's this. It has crossed my mind that someone might be trying to sew the Jews into a very nasty body-bag.' Now the general raised an

Uki Goni's excellent book The Real Odessa for much of my information about Nazis in Argentina.

Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

It had not done so then, and could not now

The writing of contemporary history can be among the most treacherous of ambitions. Everybody knows we never appreciate what we have till it's gone; that the owl of Minerva flies at dusk; that familiarity breeds contempt; and so forth.

The Incarnation is not about a God who steps in for a while to rescue a few souls from a godless world. It is a cosmic work of God in history that impacts the whole of creation for all time. Its particularity has consequences that are universal and eternal.

Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth

Until the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, the committees were shrouded in secrecy. No details were given about them:

Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901) marked the transition from a monarch

The United States has experienced analogous problems of concentration but has a much larger nonwhite population, African Americans

A broad Protestant church, the Church of England was

he theme of previous editions of The British Polity has been that of continuity

history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains

Okres wiki?ski, który zapocz?tkowa? na Wyspach Brytyjskich przera?aj?co brutalny najazd, zako?czy? si? zastawem nie wykupionym przez skandynawskiego monarch?, który przekona? si?, ?e cen? nowoczesno?ci jest mi?dzy innymi niemo?no?? wyruszenia na wypraw? ?upiesk? dla zdobycia potrzebnej gotówki.

What actually happened in the past is gone- history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

In all these cases, we find that because of the way ancient writers write about, and rewrite, the past, it is often impossible to tell the difference between what we would call history on the one hand and midrash, legend, or expansion on the other. Perhaps the distinction is our problem: perhaps for ancient readers the notion of what really happened is not crucial.

I love history, Tom. All those old things people dig up. Just ordinary things that were once used by ordinary people, but made special by time.

Ni ska bli en del av historien, eftersom historia är allt ni bryr er om.

That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation.