Quotes About History

Blood alone moves the wheels of history

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.

the history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the sinner for the sake of Christ's merits alone.

Simeon was the ancestor of Judas Iscariot;

This is reported by Josephus, The Wars of the Jews, Book VI, pars. 28–30.

Some indeed have invented outrageous lies about the Turks in order to stir up us Germans against them, but there is no need for lies; the truth is all too great.

We can never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."

The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued that self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Alcoolul este legat de istoria omenirii ÅŸi c? num?r? mai mulÅ£i adepÅ£i decît creÅŸtinismul, budismul ÅŸi islamismul la un loc.

Theories abound about how progressive rock is intrinsically British, whereas in America few bands of this ilk emerged from the late 1960s into the 1970s. One accepted theory is that Europe is the birthplace of classical music, whereas in America, it is the nation's rich blues-based tradition that informs rock history. That supports the theory that 400 years of classical music is in the blood over there

Alexander the Great is well-known as a larger-than-life king. It turns out that he was also a larger-than-life reader.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Violence is not the answer, it doesn't work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

Neolithicization is the evolutionary cessation from a physiological perspective.

As so often in history, equality for some can only be achieved by discriminating against all the rest.

According to Clausewitz, the purpose of studying war was to provide commanders with a sound basis for their thinking and render it unnecessary to reinvent the wheel with every new situation.