Quotes About History

Yes," said Ravna, "on Nyjora." In the Age of Princesses, there had been the Elder Princess and the Younger, the Techie. The Age of Princesses was the most recent rediscovery of civilization in any known human history—and that civilization was also the ancestor of Ravna's Sjandra Kei and therefore of Johanna's Straumli Realm.

I'm a librarian, not a leader." "You're both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.

A thousand million times, castle technologies had fallen to things like cannon; why should her world be different?

Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience.

Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.

Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

Do not fear Donald Trump. Fight. Don't give up. Never give up hope. Never give up on the American Dream. History is on our side. Have faith in each other. There is something good happening out there. I can feel it. Trust me, I helped usher in democracy in Mexico, so I know what momentum feels like.

Como aquel que no puede decir lo que quiere enterrado al fondo de su raza.

Eighty percent of American forces contracted dysentery in another siege, but they kept fighting. Some had to go into combat with the backsides of their pants cut away.

the Social Security Administration has also kept a record.

is just that I am not so sure — as a writer — how I feel about him using poets and historians of their caliber to push —" "Lies?" I asked. Hadn't Octavianus used a masterful campaign of besmirching my mother to turn all of Rome against my father? "Public policy," he said flatly.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.

But wars—or the threat of war—at least put an end to American chattel slavery, Nazism, Fascism, Japanese militarism, and Soviet Communism. It is hard to think of any democracy—Afghan, American, Athenian, contemporary German, Iraqi, Italian, Japanese, ancient Theban—that was not an outcome of armed struggle and war.

Again, wars do not really end until the conditions that started them--a bellicose government, an aggressive leader, a national policy of brinksmanship--are eliminated. Otherwise, there remains a bellum interruptum , much like the so-called Peace of Nicias, when Athens and Sparta agreed to a time-out in 421 B.C., before going at each other with renewed and deadly fury in 415 B.C.

The Price of Neglect A PUBLIC THAT'S illiterate about the conflicts of the past can easily find itself confused during wartime. Without standards of historical comparison, people prove ill-equipped to make informed judgments when the dogs of war are unleashed. Neither U.S. politicians nor most citizens seem to recall the incompetence and terrible decisions that, in December 1777, December 1941, and November 1950, led to massive American casualties and, for a time, public despair.

To assert that military history suggested that wars broke out because bad men, in fear or in pride, sought material advantage or status, or because sometimes good but naive men had done too little to deter them, was understandably seen as antithetical to a more enlightened understanding of human nature.

Fifty-one hybrids and ten MINI coopers. We're the most eco-friendly assault force in history.

Don't you feel it? History is thrusting us into the path of … something. I don't know. Really, I'm not sure how to explain, but can't you sense it? The world is being tossed into chaos, and there are just us select few who see it, who can do something, and if we don't … well, I'm not sure the gods will forgive us. That we would be offered this chance and then cower. I can't believe it. I won't. We must rise to the occasion.

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

Napoleon… mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Dismal plain!