[T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to be despised and insulted.
Robin BriggsTags: history witch-hunts
To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple were both accused, and it emerged that they had decided to marry after attending an execution at the stake of their respective parents, 'so that they would have nothing to reproach one another with.
Robin BriggsTags: history tragedy witch-hunts
When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.
C.L.R. JamesTags: history historian masses
May the scribes record it.
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTags: scifi history science-fiction sci-fi scribe talisian
Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their society, but nevertheless the very dregs of human civilisation and moral standards. A historian who finds excuses for such conduct by references to the supposed spirit of the times, or by omission, or by silence, shows thereby that his account of events is not to be trusted.
C.L.R. JamesTags: politics history morals civilization historian
أسهل الاختيارات هو موقف التبعية وأصعبها موقف الاستقلال. موقف التبعية اختيار مريح مرة واحدة طول العمر وموقف الاستقلال اختيار مرهق كل يوم إلي آخر العمر.
محمد حسنين هيكلTags: wisdom life politics history
He knows different now. It's the living that chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we rewrite their lives. Thomas More had spread the rumor that Little Bilney, chained to the stake, had recanted as the fire was set. It wasn't enough for him to take Bilney's life away; he had to take his death too.
Hilary MantelTags: history death ghosts thomas-cromwell thomas-more
History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn’t change where you were from. But still, you didn’t have to stay there. You didn’t have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in the DAR, or the Gatlin Historical Society, or the Sisters. And you didn’t have to accept that things had to be the way they were, like Lena.
Kami GarciaWe are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).
Carter LindbergTags: history history-of-thought intellectual-history
France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in its cradle. Today I am proud that I am one of the millions who will come to save our heroine from the clutches of the villain from across the Rhine.
William Arthur SirmonTags: inspirational history patriotism america france germany historical-romance wwi rhine military-history world-history
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