Quotes about History

History has shown repeatedly that any obsession with the demonic will always lead to tragedy.

All God's righteous hatred of all that sin from all of human history was poured out upon Christ as He hung there on that cross.

We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history and the most consoling presage of its happiness.

Properly speaking, a culture does not have a tradition; it is a tradition.

A culture can be no stronger than its strongest myths.

If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history.

Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance.

The points of reference for all finite history are signal triumphs meant never to be forgotten: establishment of the throne of David, the birth of the Savior, the journey to Medina, the battle of Hastings, the American, French, Russian, Chinese, and Cuban revolutions.

Cultural deviation does not return us to the past, but continues what was begun and not finished in the past.

Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilisation that made them.