Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

History of the Rain

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

The Historian

Everyone’s got history,” Baasen said amiably. “Man still has to work, whatever’s in his past, eh?

Honor Among Thieves

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

The Invention of the Jewish People

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

John Adams

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Julian

History is riddled with blood and sin.

Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

A Room of One's Own

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

The Rock Orchard

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

Revolution

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Revolution

God bless you butterfly, because now I'm claiming you like no mate has ever been claimed in the history of our kind

Ryan

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

The Sense of an Ending

It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.

Small Gods

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Screening History

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Marx in Soho: A Play on History

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

Nexus

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

Lucian's True History;

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Lullaby

Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.

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