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Quotes by Historian
"Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."
30
"Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results."
30
"If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident."
30
"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."
30
"Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself."
30
"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
29
"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."
29
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
29
"Muslims may fall short of Islam but Islam will never fall short of Muslims."
29
"Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction."
29
"Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own."
29
"One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral."
29
"Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling."
29
"The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people."
29
"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline."
28
"The story of the 'bondage' in Egypt, of the use of the Jews as slaves in great construction enterprises, their rebellion and escape - or emigration - to Asia, has many internal signs of essential truth, mingled, of course, with supernatural interpolations customary in all the historical writings of the ancient East."
28
"Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history."
28
"For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours."
28
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
28
"Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hourTrue friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there."
28
"We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics."
28
"The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian."
28
"It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world."
27
"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
27
"The first source of art, then, is akin to the display of colors and plumage on the male animal in mating time; it lies in the desire to adorn and beautify the body. And just as self-love and mate-love, overflowing, pour out their surplus of affection upon nature, so the impulse to beautify passes from the personal to the external world. The soul seeks to express its feeling in objective ways, through color and form; art really begins when men undertake tobeautify things."
27
"History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story."
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