Quotes About History

Here is why:  The Brest "Peace" meant millions of Russian soldiers were needed no longer.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

History is the graveyard of aristocracies.

Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

But ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics.

God has given the Bible a most prominent place in both the history of mankind in general, and in the history of redemption in particular.

God rules by the Bible. By this book, he declares that he is the creator and that man is the creature. As the potter has the right to mold anything that he pleases out of clay, God has the right as creator to make any creature his wishes, and to make the creature for any purpose he wishes. By this book, God tells man his place as creature in the universe and in history. He tells man the standard by which he must conduct himself in this world, and he demands man to obey it.

ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics.

empty speculation "advances" every day, and this is the essence of the history of all the natural sciences, human philosophies, and non-Christian religions.

The Christian God is not a physical object, but neither is he like dreams, equations, or Zeus. Rather, he is the creator and ruler of the universe, who decrees our history and decides our destiny, and who deserves and demands our worship.

The Scripture does not give the idea that God is disinterested, but rather so concerned about us that he took on a human nature in his plans concerning our history and destiny.

It was five forty-nine on the evening of 5 May 1821, and Napoleon was not quite fifty-two years old.

The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.

Biri Rembrandt'? seviyor diyelim, ama ciddi seviyor, o kiÅŸi Tanr?'n?n var olduÄŸunu bilir ve derinden inan?r. Biri Frans?z Devrimi'nin tarihini inceliyor diyelim, o kiÅŸi imans?z olamaz, en büyük ÅŸeylerin gerisinde de tanr?sal bir erkin kendini gösterdiÄŸini anlar.

The present time is so interesting if one considers that it is possible we shall witness the beginning of the end of a society.

sometimes, the past should not only be forgotten, it should be destroyed.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

I spoke with my father after reading this book and he wryly recalled the tremendous hope that his generation had had from the 1971 election. They really believed that "garibi" would be "hataoed". Of course, nothing of the sort transpired.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

An old story, but the glory of it is forever.