Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
Lewis H. LaphamStichwörter: history
It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.
Tsitsi DangarembgaStichwörter: history colonization blackness
It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.
Timothy B. TysonStichwörter: lies history defiance loyalty edcuation inculcating obediance social-order textbooks
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
Kingsley AmisStichwörter: truth pessimism love history cynicism
There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.
Robert K. MassieStichwörter: history
They never let you live it down. One little mistake!"- Nero
Robert Lynn AsprinUnjust social orders do no fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of people organize a movement powerful enough to push them down. Rarely do such revolutions emerge in a neat and morally pristine process.
Timothy B. TysonStichwörter: history revolution consciences oppressors unjust-social-orders
Just a little off the top!"- A. Boleyn
Robert Lynn AsprinBrant had said my embellishing constituted a disservice to history and its players. But I believed the opposite. Marooning them on the forlorn island of Only What We Know, a place whose boundaries were determined by the scant information provided by a handful of surviving documents, seemed the greater disservice. I paid homage with my imagination, and hoped I might get visitors to do the same.
Leah Hager CohenReality denied comes back to haunt.
Philip K. DickStichwörter: history self-deception psychology behavior
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