Quotes About History

Female erasure is and has been the essential tool used throughout history to ensure the success and continuation of patriarchal values.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture. In scientific language, culture is not a function of race.

But she's only a woman!" The watch captain shook his head again. "So was Helen of Troy, sir. Look what she started.

The Arab Legion was the most formidable—twelve thousand soldiers trained by the British, armed by the British, and led by the English general Sir John Glubb.

But Palestine was derived from the name "Philistine," the people who were constantly at war with the ancient Israelites.

Children of fourteen were almost always sent, by the infamous Dr. Mengele, directly to the gas chambers.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term "death camps" implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.

The the Shoah involved millions of people, it was a unique experience for each of them.

A KZ-ekben nem írtak nagy verseket. Ha nem így volna, még azt mondhatnánk, hogy a lágerek jók voltak valamire, mondjuk megtisztulásra, aminek nagy m?vészet lett az eredménye. De semmire se voltak jók.

How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap?

The Shoah involved millions of people, it was a unique experience for each of them.

Wars, and hence the memories of wars, are owned by the male species. And facism is a decidely male property, whether you were for or against it. Besides, women have no past, or aren't supposed to have one. A man can have an interesting past, a woman only indecent.

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn't now, then where did it go ?

The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.

It is strange how, once graves are broken and overgrown in this way, then the people in them are truly dead. The Indian Christian graves at the front of the cemetery, which are still kept up by relatives, seem by contrast strangely alive, contemporary

A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.

Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.

That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.

Time is different in an ancient place. Not slower, but somehow bigger, perhaps less transient.

Back then, I say, you could have died easily as he, all those frail geniuses died of syphilis or TB.

Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.