Quotes About History

This was also the year in which the Ayatollah Khomeini died, and the year in which his successor approved birth control. The results of that change have proven disastrous for Iran, which has seen its birth rate go from 3.4 in the period immediately following the revolution to 1.7, which is to say below replacement level, which is where it stands today. If this demographic collapse continues, Iran will cease to exist as a nation after 2,500 years of history.

The history of Argentina is a history of struggle between Hispanic Catholicism, symbolized by the monument, and the cabal of Jews and Freemasons that came to be known as the Enlightenment

Once Europe turned away from Christ, it had to turn to the City of Man. That meant that Libido Dominandi became its constitution.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

The evolutionary epic is probably the best myth we will ever have.

Seeley was right when he said that "moral deterioration is bound to set in in any subject race.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

Once I built a railroad, now it's done.Brother, can you spare a dime?

I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma

History is movement; and movement implies comparison.

It's a bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.

One of Russia's tsars, around 1580, was known as Ivan the Terrible, and rightly so. Beside him Nero was mild.

China is, in fact, the only country in the world to be ruled for hundreds of years, not by the nobility, nor by soldiers, nor even by the priesthood, but by scholars.

in those days they weren't citizens as we know them, but old landowning families with vast estates of fields and meadows.

so much gold reached Europe from India and America that burghers grew richer and richer as knights and landowners grew poorer and poorer.

But because it lay between those two countries, first it would be conquered and ruled by the Egyptians, and then the Babylonians would invade, so that the people who lived there were constantly being driven from one place to another. They built themselves towns and fortresses, to no avail. They were still not strong

For what [Aristotle] had done was to gather together all the knowledge of his time. He wrote about the natural sciences – the stars, animals and plants; about history and people living together in a state – what we call politics; about the right way to reason – logic; and the right way to behave – ethics.

And if we also ask, 'And how exactly did that happen?' we will be asking about history. Not just a story, but our story, the story that we call the history of the world. Shall we begin?

If Mr. Hauser finds that he is concerned with entities in history which constantly elude his grasp, if he finds that the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy, rationalism and subjectivism constantly seem to change places in his field of vision, he should ask himself whether he is looking through a telescope or a kaleidoscope.

E]very community insists on what Professor G. J. Renier calls "the Story that must be told" about its own past, and where scholarship decays, myth will crowd in.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!