Quotes About History

Christianity spurs hate, division, and murder as it has throughout history.

Ancient Greece was and is a muse because it was the first to recognize beauty and march towards it without fear.

You against the world … Bet on the World. The world is never going to change for you. Unless you are a world-historic figure. Well, are you?

The superhero universe is a uniquely American mythology. It replaces the mythology America never had. Native Americans have a long history, but the world knows very little about that history. The fact that colonial America has no history – in the sense of a history stretching back thousands of years – is a fact that haunts the American psyche. The Americans are always in the business of filling that vacuum.

Revolutions always appear impossible in prospect and inevitable in retrospect.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence.

Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice".

But there is one fact which does emerge from human history with unvarying insistence, and it is a fact which is fatal to the Malthus-Darwin theory: that the natural rate of human increase is repressed the more, not where the misery due to famine, war, and pestilence falls more heavily, but precisely where it falls more lightly.

But, as Eric Hoffer once observed, aspiring leaders cannot create mass movements unless conditions are historically ripe.

Our country's cheerleaders are wedded to the notion of American exceptionalism. But when it comes to the machinations of power, we are all too similar to other societies and ones that have come before us. There is an implacable brutality to power that is familiar throughout the world and throughout history.

That little Kennedy... he thought he was a god.

was Himmler whom the Führer had entrusted with the Final Solution, their breathtaking plan to wipe the Jewish people from the face of the earth. It was Himmler who had the nerve to justify this plan, standing before his SS generals in October 1943 and assuring them that they had "the moral right to destroy this people which wanted to destroy us," to pile up their "corpses side by side" in monuments to the Reich's power.

The city was still known for its enchantments, but it would soon become notorious for its terrors.

In the history of the AIDS epidemic, President Reagan's legacy is one of silence,

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

Sadly, the now-accepted, international church forgot that it, too, was once considered a mere cult.

History suggests that a cult graduates into a church if it outlives its founders.

This book is meant to tell the story of Indian lives, and Indian histories, in such a way as to render those histories and those lives as something much more, much greater and grander, than a catalog of pain.

To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.

In a series of rulings known as the Marshall Trilogy, the court affirmed the rights of the Cherokee and ruled the removal of Indians unlawful. Andrew Jackson did it anyway.

Not until 2006 did documents surface in Spain that detailed the extent of Columbus's tyranny and depravity.

wound down in 1842 at a cost of nearly $60 million

Perhaps no other aspect of Indian education during the sixty years of the boarding school era is more tragic than the fact that the school grounds at Carlisle and Haskell and all the other schools included graveyards