Quotes About History

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

Half a century ago in this court I was sworn in as the Member of Parliament for George. And here I am today I am not better than General De Wet. I am not better than President Steyn. Like them I stand firm in my principles. I can do no different. So help me God.

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

A queste latitudini, sacrificare la vita per difendere un territorio è qualcosa che scorre nelle vene da cinque secoli. E sembra tutt'altro che sopito, come istinto.

Porfirio Díaz era solito dire: "Povero Messico, così lontano da Dio e così vicino agli Stati Uniti".

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Creo que las mujeres sostienen al mundo en vilo, para que no se desbarajuste mientras los hombres tratan de empujar la historia. Al final uno se pregunta cuál de las dos cosas será la menos sensata

Quienes no han leído el texto [La historia me absolverá de Fidel Castro], suelen conformarse con la cita de su frase final, , afirmación, por cierto, que también hiciera Adolfo Hitler en circunstancias parecidas durante la formación del partido nazi.

A estas alturas -finalizando el siglo XX- sabemos, al fin, que la historia no lo va a absolver [a Fidel Castro], sino, como decía Reynaldo Atenas, lo va a "absorber

nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat

The one question I specifically recall being asked was how a man as evil as Hitler could paint such delightful watercolors.

In fact Cleopatra was indebted to Fulvia for teaching Antony to obey a wife's authority, for by the time he met her he had already been quite broken in and schooled to accept the way of women.

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days

The Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution are intertwined much like all chicken-and-egg problems. One couldn't have happened without the other. Social change sometimes triggers technological change; sometimes it's the other way around. But they always go hand in hand. No technological revolution fails to be directly connected to a social revolution, either just before or just after.

We'd rather have satisfaction and the maximum titillation than real information, and so history, I insist to my good friend Steve Welch, isn't a cold sequential list of facts, it's a prize anthology of the best fiction.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

From this point onwards history becomes an organic whole: the affairs of Italy and of Africa are connected with those of Asia and of Greece, and all events bear a relationship and contribute to a single end.

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.