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Quotes by Historian
"Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality."
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"In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ."
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"In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since."
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"Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize."
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"America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution."
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"Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend."
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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
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"As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports."
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"As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities."
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"I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam."
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"Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses."
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"Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."
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"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information."
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"Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle."
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"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion."
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"The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional democracy as they were on employing Black culture to 'vindicate' Black people."
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"The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals', or groups of individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their 'pursuit of happiness' to outright obliterating it."
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"We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands."
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"The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?"
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"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."
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"We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned."
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"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning."
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"The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest."
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"Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts."
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"We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years."
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"Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge."
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"This is what our love is""a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds."
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