Quotes About History

He'd told me those slashing marks were our story, to remind him never to trust me. I'd told him history didn't have to repeat itself.

Nunca viene fácilmente para todos los grandes guerreros en la historia.

Women in love made sacrifices. That was simply what they did. He'd watched the world over the span of his life, and for the great majority of it, women had yielded to the men they desired. Surely the last fifty years had been an anomaly.

I'm still a scarred and surly Irishman.

Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.

Det behöver knappast sägas att Marx tanke med en grundläggande indelning i två klasser utelämnade ett stort antal människor. ... Marx föddes i en tysk-judisk medelklassfamilj i Preussen. ... Var passade Marx själv in?

Many historians have concluded that one reason for the increasingly negative view of the Negro through the later eighteenth century was the need to salve the consciences of those who trafficked in and exploited enslaved men and women. As Grégoire put it, bleakly but bluntly, "People have slandered Negroes, first in order to get the right to enslave them, and then to justify themselves for having enslaved them. . . ."14

The country had a lengthy history of coups and the undeniable fact was that Pakistan performed better under military rule. The

that season when we remind each other of the judicial murder of a Jewish revolutionary two thousand years ago by distributing chocolate eggs to the children of people we dislike.

In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians ~ The Witch of the North

If you desire it, promised the Tin Woodman, leaning back in his tin throne and crossing his tin legs. I haven't related my history in a long while, because everyone here knows it nearly as well as I do. But you, being a stranger, are no doubt curious to learn how I became so beautiful and prosperous, so I will recite for your benefit my strange adventures.

Now, that is very interesting history, said Jack, well pleased; and I understand it perfectly all but the explanation.

Isn't a dead language rather a sad thing, Janet? Once it lived and burned and glowed. People said loving things in it…bitter things…wise and silly things in it. I wonder who was the very last person to utter a sentence in living Latin.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."

Every relationship has its drama and baggage.

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.