Quotes About History

No more than a utilitarian structure when constructed in 1913 as headquarters for Lambert's first excavation, the plain, one-story stucco building had been going downhill ever since. For

people should draw lessons from the past, but those who constantly look behind themselves will get nothing more than a sore neck and a good view of their backside.

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

And this, they say, is how thirteen became the "baker's dozen"—a custom common for over a century, and alive in some places to this day.

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

The lights of my generation have almost all gone out.

The history of psychiatry shows that many ideas and concepts that once had attained the status of incontrovertible facts were later discarded as nothing more than myths or superstitions. We are forced to the realization that the study of the nature and treatment of the neuroses--or emotional disorders--does not rest on any proven theorems or generally shared assumptions.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --

MR. WEINGLASS: Between the date of your birth, November 30, 1936, and May 1, 1960, what if anything occurred in your life? HOFFMAN: Nothing. I believe it is called an American education. -from the Chicago 7 trial

The Islamic world is passing through a most devastating period of transition. A history of economic and scientific change which in Europe took five hundred years, is, in the Muslim world, being squeezed into a couple of generations. Such a transition period…makes human beings very insecure. They look around for something to hold onto, that will give them an identity. In our case, that something is usually Islam. [Islamic Spirituality: The Forgotten Revolution]

Arabic equals Sanskrit plus history, equals Greek minus tragedy

We never know the future until it becomes part of the past.

That was a people that hath passed away. They shall reap the fruit of what they did, and ye of what ye do! Of their merits there is no question in your case.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

I'm afraid, you're right...though not only of them. We'll lose everything, including the way we live,' Hussein said. 'And these young people will lose even more. One day they'll make them spit on all that we know, and will make them recite their laws and their story of the world as if it were the holy word. When they come to write about us, what will they say? That we made slaves.

Oviedo, que escribe catorce horas por día, será el conquistador de los conquistadores, el depósito de la verdad. El corral de hechos y personas. Hará con la pluma mucho más de lo que efectivamente hicimos nosotros con la espada. Curioso destino. Pero Jehová mismo no sería Jehová si los judíos no lo hubiesen encerrado en un libro.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man's inhumanity to man.

History dressed up in the glow of love's kiss turned grief into beauty.

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives.

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.