Quotes About History

I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.

In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.

His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge he included in his DIVINE COMEDY from the writings of al-Farghani (whom he referred to by his Latin name, Alfraganus).

the site still radiated a powerful aura that whispered of past glories too ancient for me to comprehend.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago

Three weeks ago a man who had called himself Lee H. Oswald had rented Box 6225.

the Dallas Police Department felt that, in Lee Harvey Oswald, it had a good catch.

Sometimes the bedsheet is a Confederate flag. I wonder how the Negro players feel about them. The worst part is that these things are hung by kids. Why the hell couldn't they let that stuff die with their grandfathers? These are not rebels who want something new. These are rebels who want to bring back the old. Doug

They have bedsheet banners in Atlanta too. They say REBEL. Sometimes the bedsheet is a Confederate flag. I wonder how the Negro players feel about them. The worst part is that these things are hung by kids. Why the hell couldn't they let that stuff die with their grandfathers? These are not rebels who want something new. These are rebels who want to bring back the old.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

Librarians: Kicking Ignorance in the Balls for Over 4000 Years

We can know what was, but not what might have been.

History and experience should tell each and every one of us, time and time again, that having wealth and/or power as the aim in life will destroy any individual (and many other people, in some instances).

On the far side of the Ganges are the Siwalik range of hills—hills that were old before the mighty Himalayas were born.

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.

FEW PEOPLE in American history have been as consistently disliked as the Puritans.

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

Why should whites apologize? For inventing nearly everything and still being spat upon by the ingrates who freely "appropriate" these inventions without even a simple "thank you"?

There are reams of evidence of technological innovations by the ancient Chinese, the ancient Indians, and the ancient Semites—emphasis on the "ancient.

Are you aware that non-racist, peace-licking, universal-personhood-touting communist governments slaughtered an estimated ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE in the 20th century? The commies beat Hitler 20-1. Their unbounded love for 'humanity' didn't seem to put a check on an even stronger love for controlling and killing human beings. So much for your murky notions of government-mandated humanism.

Pizza Hut was the first company to ever deliver to outer space; they delivered pizza to the International Space Station in 2001

Death steals everything except our stories.