Quotes About History

Medeniyet yok oluyor diye ba??rd? Tom öfkeyle, Ben art?k bu konuda karamsar?m. Åžu Goddard denen adam?n yazd??? The Rise of the Coloured Empires adl? kitab? okudun mu?

Assim vamos persistindo, como barcos contra a corrente, incessantemente levados de volta ao passado.

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

You got some idealist idea about man being some noble creature Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and all this crap about how we can change human nature. You can't change it, you're beating your head against a brick wall. People have had a couple of million years to change and they ain't changed yet, have they?

History was being rewritten by the minute. All of his childhood heroes were now being viewed as villains, their lives judged in hindsight by the current fad of political correctness.

But in August 1945, Americans

Clyde. This here's Bonnie.

she had taught a class in oral history at the community college, and Elner Shimfissle had attended with her friend Irene Goodnight.

In the Middle East today there are too many people consumed by political dreams and too few interested in practical plans. That is why, to paraphrase Winston Churchill's line about the Balkans, the region produces more history than it consumes.

The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever the ailment, more democracy became the cure.

liberty came to the West centuries before democracy. Liberty led to democracy and not the other way around.

In an almost unthinkable reversal of a global pattern, almost every Arab country today is less free than it was forty years ago. There are few places in the world about which one can say that.

Glimpses of World History

wisest leaders try to understand history, evaluate the larger forces at work, and determine how much room there is for human action.

Lenin is supposed to have once said, "There are decades when nothing happens, and then there are weeks when decades happen.

Historically the lesson is clear: if growing inequalities are not addressed by reforms, revolution might follow.

FOR MOST OF human history, education was job training. Hunters, farmers, and warriors taught the young to hunt, farm, and fight. Children of the ruling class received instruction in the arts of war and governance, but this too was intended first and foremost as preparation for the roles they would assume later in society, not for any broader purpose. All that began to change twenty-five hundred years ago in ancient Greece.

The most consequential by far was the bubonic plague, which began in Central Asia in the 1330s and spread to Europe in the following decade.

The statesmen who led the Allied countries through war and depression knew better and resolved to give idealism a chance.

the general magnitude of global warfare has decreased by over sixty percent [since the mid-1980s], falling by the end of 2004 to its lowest level since the late 1950s.

Harvard's polymath professor Steven Pinker argues "that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

It was called the Spanish flu not because it began in Spain, but because that country, being a noncombatant in the war, did not censor news.

Greece is internationally famous for three reasons. First it has more islands than people. Second, it used to be a part of Turkey. Third, its national hero, Alexander the Great, was a Yugoslavian.