History Quotes - Page 58

History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.

Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. It assigns every worker to his job and fixes his wages. It decrees to whom and on what terms the capitalists must entrust their funds. Market exchange is merely a sham.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

What if this present were the world's last night?

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important of whom were Joseph Goebbels, Otto Dietrich and Alfred Rosenberg, at the top of the key opinion-shaping institutions. In a dictatorship resting on the 'leadership principle', Hitler's anti-Semitic convictions defined policy.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

History is clarified experience.

But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.

Science is our century's art.

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.