Quotes About History

I don't want them to forget Ruth, I just want them to remember me!

History has a way of doing that. People appreciate it more the longer it lasts.

We are not that far removed from when I was chasing the record. If you think that, you are fooling yourself.... The bigger difference is that back then they had hoods. Now they have neckties and starched shirts.

Look around the stadium. There's not one memento of what I did. There's nothing about what I did in this stadium, but they've got a statue of Ty Cobb sliding into a base.

Cumulatively, the sheer volume of papyrus and parchment under-girding sacred Scripture dwarf that of any other work in classical history. Consider, for example, Homer's Iliad, Bible to the ancient Greeks. While its manuscript numbers are singularly impressive—650 copies—this pales by comparison to the almost 6,000 Greek manuscript fragments undergirding the New Testament.

PorzÄ…dek historyczny okazuje siÄ™ tylko porzÄ…dkiem umierania.

?ydzi jeszcze nie uporali si? ze swoj? polsk? spraw?. Z niemieck? tak, ale to by?o ?atwiejsze. ?atwiej wybacza si? zadawan? ?mier?, ni? poni?enie. Sprawy z Polakami to pami?? o poni?eniu i odtr?cone uczucie. Nic nie rodzi wi?kszej agresji i trwalszej nienawi?ci ni? odtr?cona, niepotrzebna mi?o??.

Tylko literatura mo?e uprzytomni? ?wiatu jego nienormalno??. Nie historia... tylko literatura.

Osiemnastego wieczorem zebrali?my si? u Anielewicza, ca?a pi?tka, sztab. Ja chyba by?em najstarszy, mia?em dwadzie?cia dwa lata, Anielewicz by? m?odszy o rok, razem, w pi?ciu, mieli?my sto dziesi?? lat.

S?uchaj, moje dziecko. Czy ty wiesz, czym by? chleb w getcie? Bo jak nie wiesz, to nigdy nie zrozumiesz, dlaczego tysi?ce ludzi mog?o dobrowolnie przyj?? i z chlebem jecha? do Treblinki. Nikt przecie? tego dotychczas nie zrozumia?.

Przecie? nie piszemy historii. Piszemy o pami?taniu.

The road to totalitarian domination leads through many intermediate stages for which we can find numerous analogies and precedents.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations.

For most of recorded history, the treatment of women's sexual and reproductive health was the almost exclusive bailiwick of women, including the "juries of matrons" who performed the genital examinations required in the evaluation of rape and annulment cases and who were among the rare women considered qualified to give testimony in medieval courts of law.

The Virgin Mary is both a major medieval legacy and a complicated, messy mixed bag.

Not for nothing did phrases like 'he who marries for love has good nights and bad days' and insults like 'cunt-struck,' the eighteenth-century equivalent of saying that someone was thinking with his dick, survive into the Victorian age.

everyone ought to be interested in politics. If we all had been, then maybe the Nazis wouldn't have got their hands on power;

Maximus remained a child of his time, a disciple of his master. But the fact that he was able to develop his own basic insight, in spite of such influences, makes him one of the greatest thinkers in Christian intellectual history.

Maximus expressly says that the Incarnation—more precisely, the drama of Cross, grave, and Resurrection—is not only the midpoint of world history but the foundational idea of the world itself.

the Church and her exegesis of revelation progress through the ever-changing periods of world history. New aspects emerge, while others wane; efforts are made to compensate for one-sided emphases, but not rarely they are simply replaced with the opposite extremes. Today too, then, it is a duty to restate the principles in a new and timely way—while being as measured as possible—and in so doing to retrieve what is of permanent value.