Quotes About History

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

It was a little before noon on March 9, 1974, and I was on a slope about two hours away from Wakayama Point.

On the eighth of December in that year, the war between Japan and the United States began.

The beach at Gontin was unlucky for Shimada. On May 7, 1954, he was killed at a spot only about half a mile from the place where he had been wounded in the leg.

And when I saw this small, dignified man emerge from the plane, bow, and then stand rigidly at attention for his ovation, I suddenly realized that he was something I had not seen—a man who was still living in 1944! Or at least only a few days out of it. A man who for the past thirty years must have been carrying around in his head the forgotten wartime propaganda of those times.

How would he react to a Japan that is so radically different, on the surface at least, from what it was in 1944?

Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, preserve time.

History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second World War, but in Libya he oversaw a campaign of genocide. The

Muammar Qaddafi deposed King Idris

Winning without problem is just victory , but winning with lots of trouble create History ..

Mänsklighetens minne är bristfälligt och orättvist, och våra äldsta och största välgörare ha vi glömt.

Nu pricep cum se poate dispre?ui originea unui popor, indiferent dac? e cel care l-a inventat pe Dumnezeu sau cel care a inventat cifrele!

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

Memory is social: people remember collectively, they remember publicly, and they remember interactively.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.

sometimes knowing someone for a long time seemed more important than liking them.

People remember the Enemy of Death," said Alma. "But they forget the man who made him who he was.

When it was his turn to talk, he told stories. He told me ones I knew, old stories, and he told me old-sounding ones I had never heard.

Charlie and Doreen had never been particularly friendly, but they knew some of the same people. And sometimes knowing someone for a long time seemed more important than liking them.

History is neither truth nor completeness. It is simply the best story people can string together at the time, out of whatever facts and snippets they might have on hand.

First, I look at history the way I look at evolution. Some things die out for a good reason, and should be left dead. I put dictatorships and velociraptors in the same category: leave them in the past, where they can serve as frightening object lessons for the present.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.