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“Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.”
“If all records told the same talethen the lie passed into history and became truth.”
“People's imaginations have continued to work, right up to our own day; hence the incredible crop of fanciful allegations attributing to the Templars every kind of esoteric rite and belief, from the...”
“To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January 4, 1957, this sentence: "We still do not know at any level ...”
“Thats how history unfolds. People weave a web of meaning, believe in it with all their heart, but sooner or later the web unravels, and when we look back we cannot understand how anybody could have...”
“The best way to make the true history a lasting legacy is to make it a lasting subject of learning”
“History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better future, -105”
“Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.”
“When we return to our elementary school playground or the site of our first kiss, we're dropping in on our own history years later. Visiting those same places in the present not only collapses time...”
“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.”
“An individual is no match for history.”
“Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such obscure entities as the power or mental activity assumed by nave historians; indeed he was, in K...”
“History is the hidden map of who, where and how we are today.”
“What is history? What is its significance for humanity? Dr. J. H. Robinson gives us a precise answer: "Man's abject dependence on the past gives rise to the continuity of history. Our convictions, ...”
“Dictators have no peers; only sycophants to do their bidding. That is how it was in Nazi Germany. And so it is wherever autocrats rule in government or in business. Dictators and braggarts cause th...”
“In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.”
“What just cause can be found for the encounter of so many nations, or what hatred inspired them all to take arms against each other? It is proof that the human race lives for its kings, for it is a...”
“10 fundamental lessons of history:1. We do not learn from history.2. Science and technology do not make us immune to the laws of history.3. Freedom is not a universal value.4. Power is the universa...”
“To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.”
“If we wish to understand our own place on earth, we must seek to understand those who have gone on before us. We must look beyond the present moment and see ourselves reflected in the deep pool of ...”
