Quotes About History

more damaging loss to his reputation than that suffered thirty years before by his father, James IV

cut to pieces at Flodden Field by the father of the very same English commander.

She allied with the pro-French Beaton and Lennox, whose joint forces mustered at Linlithgow on July 24.

Arran and Lennox were rival claimants to the succession. Their families were old enemies;

She was only twenty-eight. It was, wrote a chronicler

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Pope Paul IV refused to declare in her favor

If this were not enough, a volte-face had taken place in France itself.

three white fleurs-de-lis on an azure background, set with three rubies and an emerald.

If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.

At the age of fourteen, he was sent to a rather unacademic school at Linz. Adolf Hitler, who was almost exactly the same age as Ludwig, was also there.

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be.

Every single thing that touches your life, religious, socially and politically, must be an instrument of your liberation or you must throw it into the ashcan of history.

After the rise and decline of Greek civilisation and the Roman destruction of the city of Carthage, they made one area of the conquered territories into a province which they called Africa, a word derived from afri and the name of a group of people about whom little is known. At first the word applied only to the Roman colonies of North Africa. There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as the Land of the Burnt-face People.

To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.

And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

The rulers of the world were Monks, when they could not be Martyrs.

The present is a text, and the past its interpretation.

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has been the memory of what happened at Hiroshima. – John Hersey, quoted in Fallout by Lesley Blume

The nearest approach to a libertarian government was the government of the United States at the time of its inception.

The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.

And never forget, there is memory.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough