Quotes About History

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the august light of abiding memories. And

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.

I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time.

It had borne all the ships whose names are like jewels flashing in the night of time

Mrs. Gould knew the history of the San Tomé mine. Worked in the early days mostly by means of lashes on the backs of slaves, its yield had been paid for in its own weight of human bones. Whole tribes of Indians had perished in the exploitation; and then the mine was abandoned, since with this primitive method it had ceased to make a profitable return, no matter how many corpses were thrown into its maw. Then it became forgotten.

History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads.

Haven´t you heard of the duel going on ever since 1801? - The Duel

don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars.

The actors of 1812 have long since left the stage, their personal interests have vanished leaving no trace, and nothing remains of that time but its historic results.

The ancients have left us model heroic poems in which the heroes furnish the whole interest of the story, and we are still unable to accustom ourselves to the fact that for our epoch histories of that kind are meaningless.

not by gunpowder but by those who invented it would matters be settled.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres contaban.

your grandfather called it. It has stood the test of time, and

The Danish element dates from the piratical invasions of the ninth and tenth centuries. It includes anger, awe, baffle, bang, bark, bawl, blunder, boulder, box, club, crash, dairy, dazzle, fellow, gable, gain, ill, jam, kidnap, kill, kidney, kneel, limber, litter, log, lull, lump, mast, mistake, nag, nasty, niggard, horse, plough, rug, rump, sale, scald, shriek, skin, skull, sledge, sleigh, tackle, tangle, tipple, trust, viking, window, wing, etc.

One last unexploded mine remains, its exact location unknown and its hidden potency serving as something of a symbol of the Great War's underlying power to influence events down to the present day.

The Germans had more men killed and wounded at Verdun, 325,000, than all the 230,000 men deployed in the field at Stalingrad twenty-six years later.

constant companions throughout the project: Stanley Weintraub's A Stillness Heard Round the World, A. J. P. Taylor's The First World War, John Keegan's The First World War, and Malcolm Brown's The Western Front.

On weekends his idea of rest was to read military history aloud to his daughters.

Jean-Claude Juncker, the proud architect of Luxembourg's massive corporate tax-avoidance schemes and now the head of the European Commission, has taken a hard line—perhaps understandably, given that he may go down in history as the person on whose watch the dissolution of the EU began.

Throughout its history, America has struggled with inequality. But with the tax policies and regulations that existed in the post–World War II war period—and the heavy investments in education, like the GI Bill—matters were improving. The tax cuts at the top and deregulation that began in the Reagan years reversed that trend. There

systematically murderous totalitarian system of all, conspired in their own death, was yet a fourth savant-idiot. The classic American savant-idiot, surely, was Susan Sontag. This is the Susan Sontag who called white civilization "the cancer of human history";

conference? She was the Princess Repanse de Schoye of von Eschenbach's Grail Romance, the "lady of the mountain of Tabor."27 Von Eschenbach's "fiction", in other words, was no fiction at all, it was a hidden history of the Cathars, the Grail, and the "Grail Crusade.

Ich geselle mich zu ihnen und schaue ebenfalls voller Ehrfurcht und Bewunderung zu diesem gewaltigen Bauwerk auf und erschaudere angesichts einer Kultur, die eine solche Waffe, ein solch perverses Monument der Massenvernichtung bauen konnte.