Quotes About History

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar.

You foreigners, you're all the same! You come here to find out about Fredrico's death, yet you don't know a damn thing about what really happened in Granada in 1936." - Gerardo Ros

Hay quienes dicen que este país es amnésico y reacio a afrontar su historia. Quizás no se equivocan.

Each of us becomes a new person as we redescribe the past.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

The Treaty of Versailles was 'the blackmailer's lucky find'.

Only through history can we learn for the future.

Karl Marx's dictum that 'men do make their own history, but . . . under given and imposed conditions'.

Generalizations about the mentalities and behaviour of millions of Germans in the Nazi era are bound to be of limited application – apart, perhaps, from the generalization that, for the great mass of the population, the figurative colours to look for are less likely to be stark black and white than varying and chequered shades of grey.

Spartacism.

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate but paved with indifference

In each case the individuals made history-although,to adapt the thought of Karl Marx,not under circumstances of their choosing

I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings. Winston Churchill (1901)

Rocks are the ticking clock that measure the age of the Earth.

Australian aborigines have the oldest continuous culture in history, dating back almost 60,000 years. In their mythology, there was a time before humans that stretched back into eternity.

Geology is not the study of stones. It is the study of time. Rocks are the ticking clocks that measure the age of Earth.

A marriage is built on nothing so much as the story of that marriage.

Place becomes psyche, story becomes history.

he sensed something different: a questing, a questioning, an impatience that seemed to reflect his own incomprehension and hunger for history. Each time he sat in the green glow of the spirit lamp, he felt a disquiet, a need to go onward, outward, to embrace an entire universe within his arms.

Names were the nails of history. Things were, had been, would be because they had names to guide them through time. Without a name he had no time-boundedness. Therefore he must have a name. But everything was already named, and all names were assigned. He would have to steal one.

So many names in this … "place.