Quotes About History

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [. . .] they will have to undertake something.

In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, and given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the living.' Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since.

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since. People could say, write and read what they wanted, something they could not do a year later – nor their great-grandchildren a hundred years later.

The revolution died a self-inflicted death in 1918 with the establishment of the Cheka.

History indicates that wolf control is sometimes poor biology, often poor economics, and almost always poor public relations.

Reescribir la historia de la ética es repensarla desde el presente, a la luz de los problemas y de las circunstancias específicas que hoy nos agobian.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're not the first to die.

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?

The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of ?vila.....great stuff.