Quotes About History

You could roll the same side over and over again, the laws of the universe intact and unchanging with each turn. It's only when you consider the past that the odds change. That things become less and less likely." -Lane-

Nicaea really was, after all, a sort of "coming of age" for the Church—and like many adolescents, she hesitated to leave childhood behind.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain a child forever," said Cicero.

History gives us no clean, straight causal lines binding events and giving them clear order. History is a poem, not a syllogism.

The more totalitarian a regime's nature, the more it will try to force people to forget their cultural memories. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the role of Winston Smith within the Ministry of Information is to erase all newspaper records of past events to reflect the current political priorities of the Party. This, said the ex-communist Polish intellectual Leszek Ko?akowski, reflects "the great ambition of totalitarianism—the total possession and control of human memory.

Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. THE PARTY SLOGAN, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

History is in the stories we tell ourselves about who we were and who we are. History is embedded in the language we use, the things we make, and the rituals we observe. History is culture—and so is Christianity.

A person cut off from history is a person who is almost powerless against power.

Memory, historical and otherwise, is a weapon of cultural self-defense. History is not just what is written in textbooks. History is in the stories we tell ourselves about who we were and who we are. History is embedded in the language we use, the things we make, and the rituals we observe.

than the Communist Manifesto. The political religion that murdered tens of millions, imprisoned and tortured countless more, and immiserated the lives of half of humanity in its time, and the defeat of which required agonizing struggle by allies across borders, oceans, political parties, and generations—this hateful ideology is romanticized by ignorant young

La pérdida de la religión cristiana es la causa de la fragmentación que Occidente lleva padeciendo de un tiempo a esta parte y que se está acelerando últimamente. ¿Qué ha pasado? Podemos destacar cinco hitos históricos que han sacudido la civilización occidental a lo largo de los siete últimos siglos y que la han despojado de su fe ancestral:

Depictions of communism on campus paint the ideology as revolutionary or idealistic, overlooking its authoritarian violence," she writes. "Instead of deepening our understanding of the world, the college experience teaches us to reduce one of the most destructive ideologies in human history to a one-dimensional, sanitized narrative."2

A collective loss of historical memory—not just memory of communism but memory of our shared cultural past—within the West is bound to have a devastating effect on our future.

It also doesn't mean that "progress" divorced from God is progress at all. In fact, progress can become very dark in a secular context, without a biblical understanding of human fallibility and without the God of the Bible as the author of history and the judge of the earth.

As the American national consensus shifts from a traditional, God-centered worldview to a secular, man-centered philosophy, perspectives and priorities change. History, however, does not. It may be ignored, reinterpreted, revised, or even concealed, but the historical evidence remains unchanged: America was forged in faith.

Having left not one of them alive, they stripped the temple of its treasures and burnt everything on the Acropolis.

The 'Persian Wars', as the two campaigns of 490 BCE and 480–479 BCE have been known ever since, were over.

There was never a political entity of that name until 1821

GREEK REVIVAL' 1669–1833

the urban space was dominated by the imposing rock known as the Acropolis

The frontiers of the Greek state as we know it today mostly date from as recently as 1913.

fortifications bear witness to the power of the rulers to command the labour of many thousands of men.

their owners were Mycenaeans heading for home when their ship foundered off the headland in southern Turkey known as Uluburun

Objects recovered have been identified as 'Egyptian, Nubian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Cypriot, Mycenaean, Italian, Balkan, and Baltic