Quotes About History

as Lord Reading, a viceroy of India.

who went on to write one of Louis XVI and a good synography of Robespierre. They

Because some things should never be forgotten." He smoothed the girl's unruly hair. "Not if we hope to live better lives." *

Writing a book is like giving birth. Marketing a book is like giving birth in the 12th century.

We are the makers of history, not its victims.

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

To use history is the only alternative to remaining its slave. To escape a continuing bondage to the past, we must understand the past. Only thus can we make it our servant and instrument, and not leave it our master.

Nothing seems so completely outmoded as the modernities of yesterday.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time . . . the moment when the atomic bomb flashed over Hiroshima . . . .

The class of people to which Nakamura-san belonged came, therefore, to be called by a more neutral name, "hibakusha"—literally, "explosion-affected persons.

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

Ideological ambiguity has been a hallmark of Italian politics since the foundation of the republic in 1946.

It is often said that the Germans have never recovered from the Thirty Years' War in the seventeenth century, that the brutality of that momentous clash between Protestant and Catholic armies hard-wired into their national character a sense of insecurity that they have never been able to shake off.

Buck learned this the hard way. In 1911, when a client's case pending in Shreveport, Louisiana, was called, Buck stood as a signal to the judge that he was present and ready to proceed. In disbelief, the presiding judge asked my father why he was standing. When Buck made the simple reply that he was representing his client in the case, the judge retorted that no "nigger" represented anyone in his court. With that pronouncement, my father was ordered to vacate the courtroom.

By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments. The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments, that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.

He who cannot remember the past is doomed. DOOMED!

Incarnation' does not originally mean (as it tends to today in some theologies of history, and in some kinds of Anglican today) that God took all of human nature as it was, put his seal of approval on it and thereby ratified nature as revelation. The point is just the opposite; that God broke through the borders of man's definition of what is human, and gave a new, formative definition in Jesus.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act went further, barring the immigration of all Chinese laborers.

In 1913 and 1920 California enacted "alien land laws" aimed at Japanese American farmers, essentially barring them from purchasing and leasing agricultural land. The Japanese Americans, however, found