Quotes About History

They're all in the Toff's Rifles or the Mummersetshire Yeomanry.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

The original Marx quote (rough) History repeats twice, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. The addition by Leonard; Technology repeats twice, the first time as farce, and the second as tragedy

Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus ?

In Land of Milk and Money , Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

Max Byrd's Grant.

The recognition of human insignificance did not, as one might have expected, enhance the role of divine agency in explaining human affairs: it had just the opposite effect. It gave rise to a secular consciousness that, for better or for worse, placed the responsibility for what happens in history squarely on the people who live through history

Learning about the past liberates the learner from oppressions earlier constructions of the past have imposed upon them.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

Despite the legacy of slavery, the near extermination of native Americans, and persistent racial, sexual, and social discrimination, the citizens of the United States could plausibly claim, in 1945, to live in the freest society on the face of the earth.

Finally, when historians contest interpretations of the past among themselves, they're liberating it in yet another sense: from the possibility that there can be only a single valid explanation of what happened.

A]lthough the past is never completely knowable, it is more knowable than the future.

These things did not happen simply because Reagan gave a speech or because Orwell wrote a book: the remainder of this book complicates the causation. It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

Most historians accept that Sweden was fully Christian by the beginning of the twelfth century at the latest.

Most runic inscriptions are utilitarian, and despite popular conceptions, they have little to say about mythology or magic.

In a cyclical system, however, such a linear progression repeats itself endlessly; each end is followed by a new beginning. Determining the time system of Scandinavian mythology presents special challenges because many of the sources were recorded by Christians, whose notion of time was linear and whose notion of history called for an essentially clear chronology.

J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome, G. K. Chesterton, A. A. Milne, Rudyard Kipling and P. G. Wodehouse.

As a baby, Oliver Cromwell was abducted by his grandfather's pet monkey.

When John Hetherington ventured out in public wearing the first top hat, it was considered so shocking that children screamed, women fainted, and a small boy broke his arm in the chaos.

Viking names included 'desirous of beer', 'squat-wiggle', 'lust-hostage', 'short penis', 'able to fill a bay with fish by magic', 'the man who mixes his drinks' and 'the man without trousers'.

The Wars of the Roses weren't called that. Sir Walter Scott invented the name four centuries after the conflict.