Quotes About History

We learned the value of research in World War II.

Important as history is, reasoning has to go beyond the past.

Ancient India cannot be fitted into the narrow box where the Hindutva activists want to incarcerate it.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

We teach history to instill in new generations the values of patriotism, citizenship, and love of country, but sometimes we must also remember that we teach history so that we can liberate ourselves from the past.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: [from academe] A modern school where football is taught.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Historian: A broad-gauge gossip.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.

You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand what is going on in Algeria. But read 30 pages on colonialism and decolonisation and then you'll understand quite a lot.

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

Our ancestors are our children; we peer through a hole in the wall and watch them play in their rooms, and they can't see us.

Few doctrines throughout History have been able to eradicate hatred, most of them have simply tried to deflect it from one object to another: to the infidel, the foreigner, the apostate, the master, the slave, the father. Naturally, hatred is only called hatred when we see it in others; the hatred which is in ourselves bears a thousand different names.

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Ceux qui ne pourront pas assumer leur propre diversité se retrouveront parfois parmi les plus virulents des tueurs identitaires, s'acharnant sur ceux qui représentent cette part d'eux-mêmes qu'ils voudraient faire oublier. Une "haine de soi" dont on a vu de nombreux exemples à travers l'Histoire...

Vous pourriez lire dix gros volumes sur l'histoire de l'islam depuis les origines, vous ne comprendriez rien à ce qui se passe en Algérie. Lisez trente pages sur la colonisation et la décolonisation, vous comprendrez beaucoup mieux

Heureusement que les monarques vont parfois trop loin, sinon ils ne tomberaient jamais" (dans Léon l'Africain)

Je porte dans mon prénom l'humanité naissante, mais j'appartiens à une humanité qui s'éteint, notera Adam dans son carnet deux jours avant le drame.

Si l'on faisait l'histoire comparée du monde chrétien et du monde musulman, on découvrirait d'un côté une religion longtemps intolérante, porteuse d'une évidente tentation totalitaire, mais qui s'est peu à peu muée en religion d'ouverture, de l'autre côté une religion porteuse d'une vocation d'ouverture, mais qui peu à peu dérivé vers des comportements intolérants et totalitaires.

Ce serait même désolant pour un peuple, quel qu'il soit, que de vénérer son histoire plus que son avenir.

At the bottom of the Atlantic there is a book.