Quotes About History

Drug knowledge originated mostly with males because they tend to be more venturesome-an outgrowth of male aggression. You've read your Orange Catholic Bible, thus you know the story of Eve and the apple. Here's an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.

Tibana was an apologist for Socratic Christianity, probably a native of IV Anbus who lived between the eighth and ninth centuries before Corrino, likely in the second reign of Dalamak. Of his writings, only a portion survives from which this fragment is taken: "The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

That was the Bene Gesserit view of history, ancient Santayana's words resonating in their lives: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

People fear me. I never wanted to be feared. I don't want to be a part of history, I just want to be loved... and to love.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says, "Something must be done!" and I will show you a head full of vicious intentions that have no other outlet. What we must strive for always! is to find the natural flow and go with it.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They re-create the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. —LETO II, HIS VOICE, FROM DAR-ES-BALAT

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Los historiadores ejercen un gran poder, y algunos de ellos lo saben. Recrean el pasado, cambiándolo para que encaje con sus propias interpretaciones. De este modo, cambian también el futuro.

out of prayers older than Adam

Povjesni?ari imaju veliku mo?, a neki od njih to i znaju. Oni ponovno stvaraju prošlost, mijenjaju?i je kako bi odgovarala njihovim vlastitim tuma?enjima. Pa tako mijenjaju i budu?nost.

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...

Everything in my head was secondhand, too: Catholicism; Ireland's sad history, a litany of suffering and martyrdom drummed into me by priests, schoolmasters and parents who knew no better.

the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.

If you ever say anything good about Oliver Cromwell they'll all hit you.

Remember us, Should any free soul come across this place, In all the countless centuries yet to be, May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, Go tell the Spartans, passerby: That here by Spartan law, we lie.

The eternal raison d'etre of America is in its being the sweet land of liberty. Should a land so dreamed into existence, so degenerate through material prosperity as to become what its European critics, with too much justice, have scornfully renamed it the Land of the Dollar - such a development will be one of the sorriest conclusions of history, and the most colossal disillusionment that has ever happened to mankind.

I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.

What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it." —G. W. F. Hegel, nineteenth-century German philosopher

history is God's love story. There is no event in space or time unrelated to the Jesus story, and there is no metaphor in existence unrelated to Jesus. "All

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them. — My Dad (something he told me when I was a kid)

There were no ships to be seen, and no people; only here and there the traces of some old building. Many villages had flourished in these parts before the first Northmen came, but everything had long since been plundered and laid waste, so that nowadays men had to travel far to the south before they could find any prizes worth the taking.

He says that he is a Jew. They are a people from the East who killed the man whom the Christians regard as their God. This killing took place long ago, but the Christians still cherish a great hatred against the Jews because of it, and like to kill them, and will not accept any ransom for them or show them any clemency. For this reason most of the Jews live in the lands ruled by the Caliph of Córdoba, since in his kingdom the man they killed is not regarded as a god.