“In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.”
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history
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“All history is incomprehensible without Christ.”
“Value people on their potential, not on their history.”
“History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”
“The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.”
“'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
“Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.”
“Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.”
“There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.”
“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
“So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.”
“Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.”
“In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.”
“Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.”
“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.”
“Black history is American history.”
“No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.”
“It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.”
“After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.”
“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”
“Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.”
“This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.”