Quotes About History

The government, once it takes power, nobody takes that away. If it's gained freely, it will be taken back in blood. That's the only way to get away from communism, Marxism. It's proven... you can see it in history.

Over 10,000 years of human history, I suppose it's been proven that there is an appeal to the idea of having a family. Just not for me.

History proves that the white man is a devil.

Against Japan and any Asian teams, we've had good results, so I would say that history proves we are the best Asian team.

The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.

or else I would have sung a song in response to what the male sex sings. For our lengthy past has much to say about men's lives as well as ours

Tú, Troya, patria mía, no serás ya contada entre las ciudades jamás conquistadas.

For the first time in history, drug addicts and drunks—once viewed as human wreckage that drained families and society of resources—had become valuable properties. People could make fortunes off them.

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.

If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.

More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the best of each generation, while time curbed the artist's pride and the Philistine's vulgarity, and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.

You know, he added reflectively, we've got a much easier job now than we should have had fifty years ago. If we'd had to modernise a country then it would have meant constitutional monarchy, bicameral legislature, proportional representation, women's suffrage, independent judicature, freedom of the press, referendums . . . What is all that? asked the Emperor. Just a few ideas that have ceased to be modern.

The European powers independently decided that they did not want that profitless piece of territory; that the one thing less desirable than seeing a neighbor established there, was the trouble of taking it themselves. Accordingly, by general consent, it was ruled off the maps and its immunity guaranteed. As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.

If you live with a man you come to know the other woman he has loved.

I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon; I was a man of Renaissance that evening- of Browning's renaissance. I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo's tube, spurned the friars, with their dusty tomes and their sunken, jealous eyes and their crabbed hair-splitting speech.

we possess nothing certainly except the past

Could anything be more improbable than that a religion following a man born of an unwed mother among a widely despised people in an out-of-the-way part of the world—a man then crucified by the ruling authorities on a charge of treason—should become the official religion of the Roman world, the formative influence on Western civilization, and a significant influence in other parts of the world?

The Chinese could also study the example of Japan's history in the first half of the twentieth century as a warning of what can happen as a country becomes richer and stronger, when support for military expansion becomes so strong that its leaders are unable to restrain superpatriotic

her youth passed in renaissance glory

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