Quotes About History

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

Als das Grundgesetz entstandt, zitterte förmlich der Boden, auf dem es geschrieben wurde.

God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So he maintained through all centuries and among all men the longing and the capacity for redemption, and wrought that redemption himself in the fulness of time, in the midst of history, in the crucified Christ.

The cross of Christ divides history into two parts — the preparation for and the accomplishment of reconciliation;

God makes everything beautiful in His time, He makes everything happen at the right moment, at the moment He has fixed for it, so that history in its entirety and in its parts corresponds to the counsel of God and exhibits the glory of that counsel.

173Augustine speaks of a Christianity which has existed since the beginning of the human race,

What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.

If history is to be truly history, if it is to realize values, universally valid values, we cannot know this from the facts in themselves, but we borrow this conviction from philosophy, from our view of life and of the world — that is to say, from our faith. Just as there is no physics without metaphysics, there is no history without philosophy, without religion and ethics.

The central facts of the incarnation, satisfaction, and resurrection are the fulfillment of the three great thoughts of the Old Covenant, the content of the New Testament, the Kerygma of the Apostles, the foundation of the Christian Church, the marrow of its history of dogma and the centre of the history of the world.

one thread runs through the history of mankind, namely, the operation of the sovereign, merciful, and almighty will of God, to save and to glorify the world notwithstanding its subjection to corruption.

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

My great great grandparents were slaves. And now I'm running for president of the United States. Is this a great country or what?!

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Thou great democratic God!… who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!

All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

The poor old Past,The Future's slave.

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

Fiction harmless? Look at religion. Fiction harmless? Look at the oppressed masses content with their lot because they have embraced the lies imposed on them. History itself is just a fiction—a fiction with an army. And reality? Reality is a fiction with an unlimited budget. That's

does not pertain to the businessman. To him everything is relevant. He is the true Renaissance man. And this is why I gave myself to the pursuit of knowledge in every conceivable realm, from history and geography to chemistry and meteorology.

Inofensiva, la ficción? Mira la religión. ¿Inofensiva, la ficción? Mira a las masas oprimidas, satisfechas con la suerte que les ha tocado porque se han creído las mentiras que les imponen. La historia misma es una pura ficción; una ficción provista de ejército. ¿Y la realidad? La realidad es una ficción con presupuesto ilimitado. Nada más. ¿Y cómo se financia la realidad? Pues con otra ficción: el dinero. El