Quotes About History

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

A lovers' quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.

Open my heart, and you will seeGraved inside of it, "Italy."

Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy".

Event sourcing is a strategy wherein we store the transactions, but not the state. When state is required, we simply apply all the transactions from the beginning of time.

the history of software development technology is the story of how to conveniently create plugins to establish a scalable and maintainable system architecture.

MacBook is at least 1022 more powerful than those early computers that I started using half a century ago

A woman's death, through much of the same history, was thought to be a simpler thing, preferably quiet and uncomplaining, or tragically in childbirth. Just as women were denied the right and the capacity to a full life, they were denied the right and the capacity to a full death as well.

What is discontinuous in Hegel's text is not just the text itself, but the whole of human history, for it is Hegel who sees, or begins to see, that it is the process of thought that is everything; its results are only part of the process, and the final result—"the Absolute"—is an illusion.

On February 15, 1921, the Red Army invaded Georgia.

Lenin, albeit tardily, realized that Stalin's personality very much mattered.

how did he come to be elevated to membership of the Bolshevik Central Committee?

Consequently, Lenin and his followers went down in history as the Bolsheviki (majorityites); their opponents, as the Mensheviki (minorityites).

In deviation from the historic pattern of Russian autocracy, the Soviet Russian state arose as a novel form of party rule.

The great popular insurrections that broke out from time to time in Russian history show that the peasant, even at his most rebellious, tended to preserve a loyalty to the tsar or to the idea of being ruled by a tsar.

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Thus was Stalin's call for collective farming incorporated into official policy, causing the Fifteenth Congress to be described in later party histories as the "congress of collectivization.

The Mensheviks emerged from the Revolution of 1905 as the dominant Social Democratic faction in Georgia.

Stalin's championship of the "Uralo-Siberian method of grain procurement," as he himself later called it, has rightly been described as a great turning-point in Russian history, since "it upset once and for all the delicate psychological balance upon which the relations between party and peasants rested. . . ."[

Leninism was in part a revival of Russian Jacobinism within Marxism.

Not only did such an ideology legitimize the young man's resentment against the various forms of established authority, it identified his enemies as history's, bestowed higher meaning on his urge to live a life of combat against forces of evil, and sanctified his quest for vindictive triumphs along the way.

Paraphrasing the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: "Here I stand, on the borderline between the old capitalist and the new socialist worlds. Here, on this borderline, I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and the peasantry of the East in order to smash the old world. "May the god of history help me.