Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Collected Essays Of Thomas Henry Huxley

The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.

On the Concept of History

Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man; and that he may at times be moving simultaneously among different epochs?

Culture and History

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

City as Landscape

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

History will not let us forget: it wears disguises, reintroduces itself to us, claims it is someone new and wonderful. But let us not forget.

City of Stairs

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear. Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

Cosmopolis

...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been.

Darkness at Noon

The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.

Dust

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.

Experience and Education

History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.

The Evil We Love

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Education of a Wandering Man

And in that history you're trying to connect to something that once was yours - to something purer, better, something that you lost or something, maybe, that you never knew but that you feel you knew.

Engleby

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Vol. 2

The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.

The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

Faith and Doubt

And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history," Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. "Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.

Fancy Pants

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it’s never enough. You also must run.

God Emperor of Dune

Even the worst humans in the history of the world didn’t grow up thinking, "I hope I slaughter an entire race of people when I’m an adult".

The Great Deceiver

The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.

The Goblins of Eros