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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.
The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.
The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.