Quotes About History

Thus, Ford was willing enough to participate in Nazi anti-Semitism if it turned a profit.

Mental patients and disabled people appear to have been the first ones the Nazis actually gassed; they killed at least 50,000 in an experimental euthanasia program code-named Aktion T4 that began in the fall of 1939.

The number of the Jews murdered in a beastly fashion in the Wilno [Vilna] area and in Lithuania is put at 300,000.

There were 5 million Jews to murder in the Nazi-occupied USSR, according to his list, and 2.3 million more in the former territories of Poland. Long-range plans called for the SS to eliminate all 4,000 Jews in Ireland once the German troops arrived.

Everything is 'smart' now. The library cataloging system is smart, classification and indexing information entered into a uniform online database. People wept and lamented the loss of the old cards, then forgot them. They pretty much forget everything they weep over and lament. Clop-clop of hooves on the street. The humble art of carrying a block of ice up the stairs, pincered by a pair of tongs. Rotary phones and 33 rpm records. Stamp-pad ink and poster paint.

Most national identities rest in part on a series of shared pseudohistorical myths.

Plundering history to deliver modern indictments serves no rational or benign purpose.

One of the regular temptations seducing historians and their audience is to imagine knowledge of the past

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

This is not intended as a record or a chronicle, but the poetry of fossils, a reminiscence of the end of civilization. The dinosaurs left behind almost no trace of themselves. A few bones preserved in the amber, the contents of their stomachs, their waste. I only hope that we may leave behind something more than they did.

Hal Lindsey called it "the greatest betrayal of Israel committed by any American president in history."17Bill Koenig, a prominent author and Washington correspondent, reports that "President George W. Bush is rapidly moving himself and our nation on a collision course with God over Israel's covenant land."18

Hesiod was virtually a contemporary of Ezekiel. Another of the major sources on the ancient history of the Middle East is, of course, Flavius Josephus

Attacking the ostensible paradox of altering previously recorded historical events, Robert Heinlein's short story All You Zombies remains the ultimate, absurdly extreme, example for most devotees of this genre.1 Traversing the

The Diaspora simply cannot be understood without the back-ground of Deuteronomy.

precisely seventy years after the captivity began, just as Jeremiah had predicted. The foundations of the second temple were laid by the spring of 536 BC.

The history of the Bible can be viewed as a Tale of Two Cities: Babylon as the City of Man; Jerusalem as the City of God. Both of them have their beginnings in Genesis and both of them are prominent in the climax of the book of Revelation. They represent ideas, not just locales.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

So you can't look at church history to find the model for the church, just like you can't look at the history of mankind and find God's divine intention for man.

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)

What a time! What a civilization!

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.