Quotes About History

Th soul! Ah, and did she not too have her savage and traitorous Tlaxcalans, her Cortés and her noches tristes, and, sitting within her innermost citadel in chains, drinking chocolate, her pale Moctezuma?

First, Spaniard exploits Indian, then, when he had children, he exploited the half-breed, then the pure-blooded Mexican Spaniard, the criollo, then the mestizo exploits everybody, foreigners, Indians, and all. Then the Germans and Americans exploited him: now the final chapter, the exploitation of everybody by everybody else –

This ought to be about the place, if Alcapancingo's over there, Hugh said, where Bernal Díaz and his Tlaxcalans got across to beat up Quauhnahuac. Superb name for a dance band: Bernal Díaz and his Tlaxcalans...Or didn't you get around to Prescott at the University of Hawaii?

Most of the great universities of the West were founded with the conviction that theology is the queen of the disciplines. (...) Now, in the latter part of the twentieth century, that tradition has almost disappeared.

I've always thought that the Cold War when it was on was one of the most bizarre wars in history because wherever you had the Americans, they created Communists and wherever you had the Communists they created anti-Communists. So that really the Cold War became the question of whether the Americans would create more Communists than the Russians would create anti-Communists. At the present moment the Americans are doing rather well.

These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of parables whereby God communicates in terms that the imagination rather than the mind, faith rather than knowledge, can grasp.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.

The problem with the Mindset of a fair Democracy is that it purports to be a fair and trustworthy system, but history shows clearly how the voters' trust has been constantly abused.

Don't waste time defending your intentions. History will judge you by the outcomes of your actions

You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.

Don't learn literature from a history teacher.

Learn from your history, but don't live in it.

Don't judge people for their success or what they have today, when you don't know their past.

Most of us would benefit greatly from recognizing and accepting the difference between our history and our destiny.

YOUR STRONGEST COMPETITORS ARE YOUR PAST PERFORMANCES.

In success formula, master of history is the master builder of tomorrow

If there ever comes a time that you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.

The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.

If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.