History Quotes - Page 53

Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial revolution, its government of checks and balances, and its conquests around the world.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

Everything may happen.

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

All history is a lie!

A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.