Historical Quotes - Page 35

• The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be justly described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the world problems of tomorrow.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  America, Understanding, World

  "The Age of the Americas: An Address Delivered at the Parrish Memorial Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, September 6, 1942".

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• It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes scold God because of the abundance of human misery and suffering-which, indeed, lies all about us. Such individuals almost dare God to demonstrate His existence by straightening things out-and at once! But He is a much different kind of Father than that. Surely it is requisite to eternal life that we come to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent (see John 17:3).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Lying

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• It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance. . . .

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Religious, Real, Understanding

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• We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.

  Christopher Lasch

  Men, Emotional, Discrepancies Between

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

  Martin Buber

  Kindness, Kind, Prophet

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• There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant . . . with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Eye, Night, Men

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• And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

  Mark Twain

  Crush, War, Race

  Mark Twain (2014). “The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories”, p.143, Diderot Publishing

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• The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique, . . . There has been nothing like it for the last 2,000 years, and probably longer.

  Lawrence Stone

  Unique, Years, Lasts

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• After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was the first of Edwards' 18 WAC champions and 21 bowl teams. That was the group of kids that totally changed the direction of my life and the direction of our football program. We started 0-3-1 and won seven or eight in a row. They were the first bowl team in school history. I hadn't really accomplished anything yet. To see all those guys reminded me where we've been. It was an emotional night.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Team, School

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• Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Movement, Reactionaries

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• There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated from religious liberty without danger, and ultimately without destruction to both. Wherever religious liberty exists, it will, first or last, bring in and establish political liberty.

  Joseph Story

  Religious, Truth, Long

  Joseph Story (1852). “The miscellaneous writings of Joseph Story ... ed. by his son, William W. Story”, p.441

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• History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on. The unwise are those who bring nothing constructive to the process, and who greatly imperil the future of mankind by leaving great questions to be fought out between ignorant change on one hand and ignorant opposition to change on the other.

  John Stuart Mill

  Wise, Men, Hands

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• My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that they are mainly there as historical benchmarks of quality, below which I must not and would not want to fall.

  Jean-Claude Ellena

  Fall, Quality, Different

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• I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

  John Adams

  Grief, Faith Religion, Abuse

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. September 03, 1816.

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• We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Broken, Promise

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “Speeches in Congress”, p.413

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• Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

  Voltaire

  Zero, Paper, Return

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• The only winner today is big business.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Today, Winner, Bigs

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• History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

  Voltaire

  Records, Crime, Tableau

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• History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

  Lord Byron

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.164, Cambridge University Press

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• My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.

  John Adams

  Darkness, Wish, Restoration

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• History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

  Abigail Adams

  Men, Hands, Woven

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• Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

  Kevin Kelly

  Design, Body, Given

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• Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

  Peter Marshall

  Dream, Vision, Needs

  Peter Marshall (2009). “Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism”, p.15, PM Press

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• There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Religious, Errors

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• Historical romance is still very strong in the market. Writers of historical romance are making the bestselling lists on a regular basis and careers are growing. However, since there is much more variety in romance today, the total sales of historicals might be down from their peak. The talk of the market softening is a reflection of this, and of the fact that one does not see big growth in this area of the market.

  Madeline Hunter

  Strong, Reflection, Careers

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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