Historical Quotes - Page 32

• History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

  Edward Gibbon

  Humanity, Lists, Facts

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• Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

  Mao Zedong

  History, Enemy, Despise

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• Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

  Country, Soldier, Guarding

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• If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

  Eamon de Valera

  War, Night, Thieves

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• The human heart will never wrinkle

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Heart, Wrinkles, Humans

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• And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

  Ulrich Beck

  Hate, Feelings, Overcoming

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• When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?

  Vilhelm Moberg

  Mean, Doe, Rowing

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• The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

  Erwin Rommel

  Long, Battle, Shooting

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• Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Expression, Aberration, Pressure

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• There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

  Bill Gates

  Writing, Rich, Software

  Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing, 1980.

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• It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

  David Attenborough

  Believe, Two, Wish

  "Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2009.

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• I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me

  Douglas Bader

  Data, Odd, Keywords

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• More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.

  Ordway Tead

  Common Sense, Survival, Analysis

  Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 66, 1950.

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• Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers and wives, sending written messages? Of course we were. But although we've succeeded in replacing slaves with wage slaves, all the advances we've made have been in the field of science. Human beings are still asking the same questions as their ancestors. In short, they haven't evolved at all.

  Paulo Coelho

  Years, Pyramids, Fire

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• These are the times for which we were born.

  David Spangler

  Destiny, Born

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• This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistably propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm is what we call progress.

  Walter Benjamin

  Angel, Past, Wings

  "Theses on the Philosophy of History". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1955.

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• What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in physics explain, say the meaning of human poetry? Or how economics work? Or the stages of psychosexual development? Can this new physics explain the currents of ecosystems, or the dynamics of history, or why human wars are so terribly common?

  Ken Wilber

  War, Mean, Ecosystems

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Young Alexander conquered India.
  He alone?
  Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army?
  Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears?
  Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who
  Triumphed with him?

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Army, Years

  Bertolt Brecht, “A Worker Reads History”

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• We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get far more that their fair share of attention everywhere else. Future historians might even conclude that our age suffered from a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder: the pathological need to repetitively seek out reasons for how bad life is.

  Rob Brezsny

  Media, Space, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.66, Frog Books

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• Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Funny, People, Generations

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• "Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than playing a piano; it requires the thinking of chords of thoughts, not just isolated simplisms or abstracta; it demands the shaping or encompassing of morphological modes of intelligence that can comprehend gestalten, syndromes, historical and civilizational patterns in which it is not the particulars but their interactive significance (as an ensemble of actualities or principles) that is vital.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Piano

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• The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.

  Amira Hass

  People, Finals, Forget

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• There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.

  Laurence Overmire

  Future, Commitment, Giving

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• The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Orthodox, Diverse

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• Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited.

  Thomas Berry

  Space, Earth, Geography

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.92, Crown

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