Quotes About History

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

We are all citizens of history.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

The echo of enslavement is everywhere. It is in the levees, originally built by enslaved labour. It is in the detailed architecture of some of the city's oldest buildings, sculpted by enslaved hands. It is in the roads, first paved by enslaved people.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.

A powerful sense of national pride built on a belief in historical humiliation, combined with an inability to distinguish between the nation and its government, goes a long way towards explaining why many in the Chinese diaspora, including Chinese-Australian citizens, remain loyal to the PRC and defend its actions even when they conflict with Australia's values and interests.

Books are the anchors Left by the ships that rot away.

The answer to the nagging conundrum of how a civilized country like Germany could produce the Holocaust is that Germany ceased to be civilized from the moment Hitler came to power.

history is the story of liberty becoming conscious of itself.

It might be said that the United States is the first known case of a civilization developing through disintegration.

Jean-François Revel (1924–2006) was the man who defined the Communist world as the first society in history condemned to live behind walls in order to stop people getting out.

and he wrote the single most famous poem about the death camps, "Todesfuge" (Death Fugue).

To attribute foreseeable necessity to the catastrophe of Germany and the European Jews would be to give it a meaning that it didn't have. There is an unseemly optimism in such an assumption. In the history of mankind there is more that is spontaneous, wilful, unreasonable and senseless than our conceit allows. —GOLO MANN, GESCHICHTE UND GESCHICHTEN, P. 170

The past is real but marbled by beliefs That turned to myth as time eroded them.

It has to be remembered that the typical Polish writer was Bruno Schulz.

But for that to be remembered, Bruno Schulz has to be remembered,

and the main reason he was so easily forgotten is that a Gestapo officer blew his brains out.

history is "little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

As a Jewish teenager in Czechoslovakia she was fated to be swept up by the Nazis,

Auschwitz, where she wound up in a block for young girls.

Until the end of World War II, Argentina and Australia were running in parallel.

We have heard that voice before, but it was later: it was only yesterday, in the Ukraine, at one of the Dubno shooting pits,