The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: humor history wilde
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
Abraham LincolnStichwörter: history atheism lincoln
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.
Adam SelzerStichwörter: women history civil-rights wieners
Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.
Wilhelm ReichStichwörter: love history nationalism religion memory class race repression
The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.
Sean CoveyStichwörter: history funny old-inaccurate-sayings
Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
Hannah ArendtStichwörter: history antisemitism historians totalitarianism communism ideology marxism 1968 final-solution race-theory sophism
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: history
One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continuity and tradition. Tradition cannot be contrived or learned. In its absence one has, at the best, not history but ‘progress’ — the mechanical movement of a clock hand, not the sacred succession of interlinked events.
Osip MandelstamStichwörter: history
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: history kids harvard doomed-to-repeat-it repeating-the-past
Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.
Malcolm XStichwörter: history society culture
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