Quotes About History

Built in the 1940s, her small house is a sturdy structure of stone.

Every period of enlightenment is followed by a new and more efficient barbarism. They preach the necessity of truth even as they flee from it. Some believe in immortality through

Libby is just a girl, but it was a girl of her age who raised the siege of Orléans in 1428 and broke the English army, and no one can say what a girl might have the capacity to endure or achieve.

politicians were tearing down a thousand years of civilization brick by brick but weren't building anything to replace it.

When a scientist tells you that 'the science is settled' in regard to any subject," Lamar said, "he's ceased to be a scientist, and he's become an evangelist for one cult or another. The entire history of science is that nothing in science is ever settled. New discoveries are continuously made, and they upend old certainties.

calm and sane. The key words of the Japanese experience, at least for most of its philosophical history, are "serenity" and "simplicity".

The first people settled there along the Santa Cruz River about twelve thousand years

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so perhaps in our postmodern rejection of the past, we cast aside more wisdom than ignorance.

What he has seen is a nation gone insane. History attests that whole societies can turn away from truth and descend into a madness of lies in as little as a year. That was all it took in Germany in the late 1930s.

If envious humanity sought godlike power and fell from grace, it might be true that some race before us did the same

the Gila River Bapchule Indian Reservation, at

I think the past might be our future, that we're busy laying the groundwork for new Dachaus, new Auschwitzes, all in the name of compassion, progress, justice, prosperity.

Dorian Purcell, working with a federal agency, funded a reckless research project into the engineering of the human genome and sited the work in rural Utah—but now people were dying here. Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction.

Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction

The internet is the greatest repository of knowledge in history. But when history is kept in electronic files, the internet is also an efficient memory hole, and truths can be erased as easily as untruths can be fact-checked and sold as the new history.

It is the history of evil people that they first seek to destroy innocence because innocence is beauty, and then seek to destroy what is merely beautiful because it reminds them of the innocence they have forsaken.

I once read that during the Civil War women of the south would soak these cloth buttons in perfume and then sew them into the collars of their men's shirts. That way the scent was a constant reminder of their loved ones waiting for them at home.

Although traditional weapons killed far more people in the Great War, poison gas gave a new nightmare edge to the fighting.

You will find that the past is still very much alive down here.

There's never been a war in the history of the world that wasn't started by the wealthy for the wealthy

Where would you be without etymology'? Lea asked sarcastically. 'I think I might find words a little less interesting,' said Mr Ruche.

Glaciers had crushed this region in the time before history. There'd been a drought for years, and a bronze fog of dust stood over the plains. The soybean crop was dead again, and the failed, wilted cornstalks were laid out on the ground like rows of underthings. Most of the farmers didn't even plant anymore. All the false visions had been erased. It felt like the moment before the Savior comes. And the Savior did come, but we had to wait a long time.

Since Marco Polo, he thought, this climate has defeated Western civilization.