“Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.”
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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.”
“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”
“I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.”
“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”
“In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.”
“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.”
“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”
“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.”
“The history of the world is the world's court of justice.”
“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
“When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.”
“It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.”
“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.”
“We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.”
“But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.”
“Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.”
“Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.”