Quotes About History

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.".

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!