Quotes About History

Treaty of Kadesh, which is basically the first peace treaty in history.

It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

1]In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. 2]Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. 3]The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

Life was not just a patchy green scruff holding a tenuous position between rock and air; instead, it was a planetary power as important as volcanoes and tides. It was an active force shaping the complex multibillion-year history of the world.

Ultimately, the problem we face is confronting a twenty-third-century dilemma armed only with a thirteenth-century mind. Our project of civilization has been successful on scales we could not have imagined when we began it ten millennia ago. But with that success has come consequences that will last for centuries.

For about the first two billion years of Earth's history, its atmosphere contained only minute traces of oxygen, even though it had long been a home to life. For

The whole history of the debate about life beyond Earth is an argument between optimists and pessimists. It's a debate that began with the opposition between Aristotle and Epicurus, extended through the 1800s to Flammarion versus Whewell, and took its modern turn with the Drake equation, through which the battle between pessimism and optimism became quantitative.

For most of human history, ignorance was inevitable. There were limited channels for information to spread. As knowledge becomes more freely available, ignorance is increasingly a choice. Opening your mind to evidence that challenges your opinions opens the door to learning.

That's the only real life, the only thing that makes you know you're alive - the backward ache. That's what music is. The trouble - for me - is that at some stage I realized those miracles, those aches, they have a history. They're not private. The music's always about what someone's lost. That's what you hear, when it's good: the worlds people lost, the ones they want back. And once you hear it that way, you can't avoid it - that it's somehow about justice.

In addition to the above-referenced loans, I owe: The inalienable privilege of my race to the victims of the Middle Passage, a debt whose repayment has proven tricky to schedule, given the endless deferments, if not forbearances, and the way that the blood of slavery tends to run clear in the tears of liberals.

The sum total of my current assets is: The knowledge that the psychotic violence of making black people black so that white people can be white runs through me as surely as it does through the bodies of all the jailers and the jailed.

And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

Unlike, say, witch-burning, slavery, and apartheid, which were once taken for granted and are now officially outlawed, war is still with us.

Forgetting one's participation in mass murder is not something passive; it is an active deed. In

Men of my generation," wrote the French novelist Albert Camus, "have had Spain in our hearts. . . . It was there that they learned . . . that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, and that there are times when courage is not rewarded.

More than 80 percent of the uranium in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs came from the heavily guarded Congo mine of Shinkolobwe. The

history teacher allows him to write his reports graphically. (San Francisco!)

son draws comics of Mongolian invasions and the Civil Rights Movement—

They ended up getting rolled almost as bad as Neville Chamberlain, he continued, referring to the British prime minister who negotiated the 1938 Munich Agreement, which was widely panned as enabling the Nazi invasion of Poland. They set this up to fail, Kinzinger said.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

Taki ukaz, zabraniaj?cy uczy? si?, nie ma przek?adu w dziejach i jest oryginalnym rosyjskim wymys?em.

Z matki obcej; krew jego dawne bohatery, A imi? jego b?dzie czterdzie?ci i cztery.

in 1944 the Germans executed brutal, slaughtering attacks on the people of mountain Crete.

The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are essential to any understanding of Trafalgar.