If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
History Quotes
In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God’s part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humor which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure […]
Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one’s tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology, ad majorem gloriam dei. The emphasis is on unselfish. Excepting a small minority […]
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who have been, and ever will be, animated by the same passions, and thus they must necessarily […]
I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach.
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
‘History,’ Stephen said, ‘is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.’
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.
