Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
History Quotes
Thirty thousand killed a million. It seems a pity that the historian let that get out; it is really a most embarrassing circumstance. (reacting to a report that thirty thousand American soldiers killed a million Filipinos)
The crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilization is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
There is false pride in hindsight. Revealed wrongs elicit sentimental bandages to dress the wounds of history. Individuals insist, saying, “I would not have let this happen, because I am good. If I had been given the power… if I had been in charge… if I were king… if I were dictator for even a […]
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
