Quotes About History

Nobody knows exactly where the first chickens were domesticated – India, China, Thailand, Vietnam – somewhere around 10,000 years ago, which is to say at the birth of farming. The wild bird is a red jungle fowl, Gallus gallus (the French made it their national bird because of the similarity to Gaul, and because they still behave like chickens).

he too went bonkers, probably due to the mercury used in preparing top hats—hence "as mad as a hatter.

In the nineteenth century, one in three British soldiers was an Irishman.

Top hats in Paris and London were paid for with genocide along the Great Lakes of the wilderness.

The name skyscraper is originally nautical. Skyscraper is the tiny, triangular sail flown from the top of the mast.

The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

A forgotten past is a past that is yet to be. A forgotten history is a memory missing from our collective conscience. An incomplete history is like an incomplete mind that has forgotten who it is and where it came from.

Churchill's 2,054 page book Second World War makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.

Guns are a necessary tool designed to help your people avoid a repeat of history.

Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word eugenics was said only once.

The claim that Darwin's theories were at the core of eugenics, the racial science at the core of Nazism, are not new. They are not revisionist history made upon the revelations of the Death Camps. These claims precede The Holocaust by several decades. American and British icons of science, namely Darwin's relatives and colleagues, were making this claim before Adolf Hitler was even born, and continued to do so on up through the end of WWII.

I think women gather up into themselves what they have been through much more than we (men) do. To them, what is past becomes a real part of them, as much a part of them as a limb; to us it's always something external, at the best the rung of a ladder, at the worst a weight on the heel.

even Herodotos suspected that he was being made fun of.

In retrospect, though many were guilty, none was innocent.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it.

It is important to remember that events now long in the past were once in the future.

earlier wars, and in the Second World War, generals, even marshals, also ran risks and died in action. In the First World War they led comfortable lives. All except Kitchener. He was the only outstanding military figure on either side who came to a violent end. Asquith

St. Petersburg—"Peter" to insiders—was renamed Petrograd at the start of the war in an attempt to erase its Germanic origins. From the first months of 1915, the atmosphere in the city had changed completely.

Mais ce vertige dans le choeur du coeur de l'absence. Séduire et raconter toute la nuit comme si comme si. Détruire. Circuler dans le sang tumultueux, les orgies des appels dans l'histoire. Défoncer les images, je lèche ton corps, t'appelle, mouille les blessures, échancre l'armature, l'abandon illusoire à flots de salive.

The revolution has achieved nothing – History will be the judge of that

Cuando supe que Adolf Eichmann murió con la palabra "Argentina" en su boca, cuando me enteré del mensaje de "amor eterno" que, en el umbral del más allá, había enviado a mi país, confieso que sentí vergüenza.

Let me not die unremembered