Quotes About History

each nation and all peoples must rely on their collective history, their own collective character, and their own collective destiny.

Most civil wars, in fact, end quite badly, and history is rife with lessons that how wars end is every bit as crucial as why they start and how they are waged.

To be sure, late that afternoon, Union soldiers drifted into the Confederate camp, and soon knots of blue- and gray-clad men dotted the hills around Appomattox Court House; bullets were indeed replaced by backslaps, the rebel yell with a hearty Southern drawl, war fervor with the first hints of war nostalgia, unbridled hatred with nascent relief, and, by the next day, West Point mini-reunions were even breaking out at the McLean farmhouse. But

A king had to die so a republic could live.

A future historian of theatre, impressed by recent pronouncements on the state of drama and stage, might call the past two decades, give or take a few years, the Time of Great Experiments. Or, the Age of Transition, during which theatre, as it has been known in the West since the ancient Greeks, finally changed into something different that still might be named theatre, but then might not.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books -- but it is terrible when one has to live it. It is almost impossible to sleep for more than twelve hours a day, and the remaining twelve hours have to be filled in somehow.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it

Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends.

If it has been possible to suggest that no event could have a final meaning before history had come to an end one way or another, then any way of giving any kind of sense to an event is a way of putting an end to history.

We are already more or less disconnected from our history and thus also from its destination. That means, then, that time can slow as it nears its end and that the year 2000, in a certain way, will not take place.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

was the first woman from the United States to meet the Queen of England.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Exist? în istoria oamenilor revolu?ii private are nu sunt cu nimic mai prejos, în ceea ce prive?te profunzimea ?i r?sturn?rile pe care le antreneaz?, decât revolu?iile publice.

Istoria nu are niciodat? sfâr?it.

Deznod?mintele cad ca tr?snetul. Nu cele ale istoriei, care nu vin niciodat?. Ci cele ale vie?ii, care vin foarte repede.

Viteza se strecur? pretutindeni, în c?l?torii, în obiceiuri, în mersul istoriei, care dup? cum repeta fiecare, se accelera, în ?tiin??, în mod?, ?i pân? ?i în literatur?.

Dragostei nu-i place trecutul. Dragostea r?stoarn? ?i d? brânci, nu prive?te decât înainte, este inamica tradi?iei.

În lenta curgere a istoriei, cu sinozit??ile, cu ezit?rile, cu mla?tinile sale, cu timpii s?i mor?i, apar dintr-o dat?, ?i adesea în durere ?i sânge, avalan?e de violen?e ?i de relativ? simplicitate.