Quotes About History

Modern philosophies in which history is a process of human self-realization are therefore spin-offs from the mystical speculations of medieval theologians. When Hegel envisioned history as a rational process, he was able to do so because – like Plato and Plotinus – he believed the world was a manifestation of Logos.

Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but not in ethics. This s the verdict both of science and history, and the view of every one of the world's religions.

Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.

This was Mississippi, where for years whites shot blacks for any reason or no reason and no one cared; where whites raped blacks and it was considered sport; where blacks were hanged for fighting back.

St. Augustine was billed as the oldest city in America, the very spot where Ponce de León landed and began exploring.

Between 1818 and 1940, the state hanged eight hundred people, 80 percent of whom were black. Those, of course, were the judicial hangings for rapists and murderers who had been processed through the courts. During that same period of time, approximately six hundred black men were lynched by mobs operating outside the legal system and thoroughly immune from any of its repercussions

Native American" is a politically correct creation of clueless white people who feel better using it, when in reality the Native Americans refer to themselves as Indians and snicker at those of us who don't

Over its twenty-three-plus years, the bookstore had become the center of downtown Santa Rosa.

With approximately seventy thousand soldiers under his command, General King's surrender was the largest in American history.

segregated schools

was the beginning of the Tudor claim to an "Anglo-British

Mary's claim to the English throne as the great-granddaughter of Henry VII

Henry first released the twenty-three Scots hostages from the Tower

the founder of the Tudor dynasty, could be the rightful king of England too.

As Mary left Kirk o'Field, she passed the entrance of her own bedroom.

where Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots were concerned

Mary was a Catholic, and Cecil's overriding ambition was to remold the whole of the British Isles

Elizabeth and her chief adviser were repeatedly at loggerheads.

Although the queens of France were also anointed and crowned

Darnley was assassinated.

Mary never saw Bothwell again.

The lords realized that her position as the future queen of France

meaning that Mary's dynastic claim had at all costs to be discounted.

the most awkward and least convincing coronation day in French history.