Quotes About History

Olvidamos ciertas cosas, las olvidamos de verdad; nos equivocamos de medio a medio suponiendo que todo se conserva en el santuario de la memoria; algunos acontecimientos, incluso diría que la mayoría, se borran por completo, no queda la menor huella, y es exactamente como si nunca hubieran ocurrido.

era un'altra patologia, un'altra storia, e me ne tornai a letto quasi rasserenato a dimostrazione di quanto ci rassicuri, in mezzo ai nostri drammi, l'esistenza di altri drammi che ci siano stati risparmiati.

Takie zaÅ›lepienie nie jest w historii niczym niezwykÅ'ym: to samo mo?na byÅ'o zaobserwowa? w latach trzydziestych u intelektualistów, polityków i dziennikarzy, powszechnie przekonanych, ?e Hitler "w koÅ"cu odzyska zdrowy rozsÄ…dek". Ludzie ?yjÄ…cy w okreÅ›lonym systemie spoÅ'ecznym prawdopodobnie nie potrafiÄ… sobie wyobrazi? punktu widzenia tych, którzy niczego od systemu nie oczekujÄ…c, planujÄ… jego zniszczenie.

Las mutaciones metafísicas –es decir, las transiciones radicales y globales de la visión del mundo adoptada por la mayoría– son raras en la historia de la humanidad. Como ejemplo, se puede citar la aparición del cristianismo.

nunca, en ningún momento de la historia humana, había existido una religión que ganara influencia sobre las masas dirigiéndose únicamente a la razón.

no se puede decir que el comunismo haya desarrollado mucho el sentimentalismo en las relaciones humanas: en conjunto, lo que predomina en los ex comunistas es la brutalidad;

Al considerar el pasado siempre se tiene la impresión — probablemente falsa — de un cierto determinismo.

But the past always seems, perhaps wrongly, to be predestined.

The French Revolution, the republic, the motherland Ã¢â'¬Â¦ yes, all that paved the way for something, something that lasted a little more than a century. The Christian Middle Ages lasted a millennium and more.

Pi?kna struktura systemu feudalnego, tak pracowicie i drobiazgowo zbudowana przez historyków prawa, jest w wielu punktach tworem fantazji i nie wytrzymuje próby analizy, gdy si? bli?ej przyjrze? konkretnym realiom ?ycia codziennego.

Yoshino says, "Gays should not rest now but move forward by looking back.

In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

The past was not always past enough here. It was like living in a house acquired for its clean angles and gleaming appliances, and discovering a bricked-up foor at which, faint but insistent, the sound of knocking could be heard.

You know, I always think about going back to college. Just to catch up on all those books that supposedly shape our lives but nobody ever reads." "Yeah? Like what?" . . . "Well, there's the Bible. You ever read it?" "Parts," said Lewis. "Well, this whole wrecked civilization is based on a book most people have only read parts of.

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II

History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to.

I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place and the right time. While Marie certainly would not have considered herself lucky to have lived through such a devastating period, history is fortunate that she remained still for long enough to record the events that raged on around her.

Then he'd given Alexander the territories of Armenia, Media, and the unconquered empire of Parthia.

RAMESSES II is one of the most well-known and widely written-about kings of ancient Egypt. A copy of his Treaty of Kadesh, written in cuneiform and discovered in the village of Hattusas, hangs in the United Nations building in New York as the world's earliest example of an international peace treaty. It is also believed that Ramesses is the Pharaoh responsible

I heard Nakhtmin's voice in my mind, that to be forgotten was the greatest gift that history could give.