Quotes About History

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." ? Vladimir Ilich Lenin

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes." ? Joseph Stalin

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." ? Karl Marx

Even in the fourth century (in the heart of the Christian Empire), the natales of the eighteen deified emperors were celebrated;

The 'I' that we confidently broadcast to the world is a fiction—a jerry-built container for the volatile unconscious elements that divide and confound us. In this sense, personal history and public history share the same dynamic principle: both are fables agreed upon. – John Lahr

Hace algún tiempo que el mundo gira en torno al dinero, ya no en torno a la historia.

All we can infer (from the archaeological shards dug up in Berkshire, Devon and Yorkshire) is that the first Britons, whoever they were and however they came, arrived from elsewhere. The land (Britain) was once utterly uninhibited. Then people came.

All around the world, tourist boards advertise trips to Britain with images of the great castles and cathedrals that occupy the commanding heights of our landscape. They seem timeless and typically English. It is rarely mentioned that they are predominately French - proud monuments to the invasion that signals the end of England's 'dark age'.

Even when we are talking about England's past, we are talking about its natural geography — its shape, location, weather, soil and raw materials. These set in motion the forces that shaped its history.

Close your eyes, and the entire history of England seems to dance in the light of this magic lantern: the thousands of villages, each with its own church spire and unique folk traditions; the poetry and drama; the pies and cakes; the green hills full of sheep; the factories; the Victorian ships and railways; the smoke and smog of urban life in the 1950s.

It could take a while — perhaps centuries. But the landscape would drip into their souls eventually. The English did not become Norman; the Normans became English.

Blue came from grinding a stone called lapis lazuli into dust. Red came from crushing tiny beetles. Yellow came from the juice of one kind of berry.

All of this follows from a time in history when procedures have taken command over rituals. A moment that is elusive, hard to establish, since the two powers also have features in common. First of all, they are both formalized actions. But they aim in opposite directions. Ritual aims toward perfect awareness, which for Catholics is the moment of transubstantiation. Procedures, on the other hand, point toward total automatism. The more procedures multiply, the more the realm of automata expands.

We must ask ourselves: what should we demand of ourselves, given the imperfections of politics and the disappointments of history.

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail.

Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question and he plumped for the Old.

All eras of history are an equal distance from eternity.

However much science and educational theory and advanced thinking you pump into a college or a university, it always retains a strong hint of its medieval origins.

It is a bad thing to forsake the old ways, and what is once lost can never quite be recovered." (Briggs

Haven't you ever heard of the 1918 flu pandemic? It killed more people than World War One and World War Two combined.

how we proceed with repair depends on how we remember

Brianna, there's a saying that goes something like this: those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it. Do you believe the genocide that happened during the Second World War was the first or last time such a thing has happened throughout history? It isn't and it wasn't. Until the Lord comes, sinful people will choose sinful paths, and that includes killing the innocents.

In eerily similar fashion, Hernán Cortés and his conquering Spanish army fled from Cuba and landed on the east coast of Mexico on Good Friday, 1519. Perhaps because of that auspicious date, Cortés named his first colonial settlement the City of the True Cross (Veracruz).