History Quotes - Page 32

The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on account of them. The Indians weren't the only bad guys. Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you and hold you accountable will release the sanctifying, transforming grace of God in your life.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the onset of economic recession in the late 1920s... The Nazis owed their spectacular to a combination of two discrete sets of factors: first, their distinctive organisation and strategy; and secondly, the wider socio-economic conditions which created climates of opinion and sets of grievances on which the Nazis could prey.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

History is the science of people.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.