Quotes About History

I must confess to some sentiment about old Ireland, in spite of the ugly mask she tries to wear.

if I must add one word of criticism to the Vikings [it is] that they were entirely lacking in any conception of neutrality.

millions shed their blood or perished in the greatest of all human contentions some twenty years ago. Merciful oblivion draws its veils; the crippled limp away; the mourners fall back into the sad twilight of memory. New youth is here to claim its rights, and the perennial stream flows forward even in the battle zone, as if the tale were all a dream.

would be wrong not to lay the lessons of the past before the future. Let no one look down on those honourable, well-meaning men whose actions are chronicled in these pages, without searching his own heart, reviewing his own discharge of public duty, and applying the lessons of the past to his future conduct.

The Boers were the most humane people where white men were concerned.

The story of the human race is War.

Winston S. Churchill

Lord Curzon quotes a great French agnostic and adopts his phrase: "All civilisations are the work of aristocracies." It would be much more true to say that the upkeep of aristocracy has been the hard work of all civilisations.

Anzac is the greatest word in the history of Australasia. Is it for ever to carry to future generations of Australians and New Zealanders memories of forlorn heroism and of sacrifices made in vain?…

As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism.

Para crear las condiciones desfavorables para sí misma, en las que Alemania produjo la guerra, eran, sin embargo, todavía necesarios muchos actos de absoluta imprudencia por parte de sus gobernantes.

the war in the West resolved itself into two periods of supreme battle, divided from each other by a three-years' siege.

No one expected a renewal of war in the lifetime of the generation that had known its horror and its squalors.

History rounds off skeletons to zero. A thousand and one is still only a thousand.

Even a passing moment has its fertile past.

So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their "oeuvres." I

Eso de fotogénico tiene poco, y requiere años. Todas las cámaras se han ido ya a otra guerra.

Gdy w domu sÄ…siadów pokazujÄ… wam z nabo?eÅ"stwem sygnet prapradziadka, wolno pomyÅ›le?, ?e tera?niejszo?? tej rodziny musi by? pod zdechÅ'ym Azorem, skoro przeszÅ'o?? tak jej imponuje.

The history of culture indicates that stupidity is the twin sister of reason, it grows most luxuriously not on the soil of virgin ignorance, but on soil cultivated by the sweat of doctors and professors.

An der technischen Entwicklung der Dampfmaschine im 18. Jahrhundert läßt sich der Prozess der Emanzipation der modernen Produktionsweise von den Schranken der organischen Natur verfolgen.

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

It's about Russia.

No work of art can compare to a city.