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“The historical relationship between Christians and Jews for most of the two thousand years of Christianity has not been good and it's been mostly persecution by Christians of Jews - not all the time, not every place, but mostly it's been that. I think that's just a terribly regretful thing. I don't see it anywhere in the Scriptures that I read, that Christians are to persecute Jews. I think it's been quite damaging. I think it's been a bad witness.”
“The historical relativist is the one who adopts an eagle's-eye view on the past, lofty enough not to need to prefer one epoch to another. Warburg was no such relativist. For him the European Renaissance, Burckhardt's Renaissance, the fifteenth century, held the keys to the present. He was fully absorbed by the epic of Europe. The 'Orient' figured for Warburg only as a mystifying threat to Mediterranean reason, a passive source of fascination, coded as female. The non-Western here is the image of a hidden weakness within the West. America, meanwhile, sheltered the remnants of the archaic societies it destroyed and at the same time promised a telecommunicational future of 'instantaneous electric connection' where 'mythical and symbolic thinking.' which once formed 'spiritual bonds between humanity and the surrounding world, shaping distance into the space required for devotion and reflection,' would no longer be needed.”
Source: A History of Art History
“The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.”
“The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.”
“The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.”
Source: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays
“The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“The historical sequence is quite simple, really," she continued, warming to her theme. "The first catastrophe was the Reformation. The Reformation led to the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution created the British Empire. The British Empire necessitated the Public Schools. The Public Schools engendered the Class System. The Class System made Socialism inevitable. And Socialism - which by bad luck arrived just as it couldn't be afforded - brought about the collapse of the economy."
"I shall vote Liberal next time," said Angela virtuously.”
Source: High Rising
“The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.”
“The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.”
“The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.”
“The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.”
“The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.”
“The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.”
“The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots”
“The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author
“The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.”
Source: Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President
“The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?”
“The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.”
Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography
“The history and baggage of certain actors and characters - it goes into the movie and becomes part of it. If Keanu Reeves wasn't Keanu with all the things that make him Keanu, it wouldn't be the same for him to come in and become his Bad Batch character The Dream. It's kind of meta or next-level interesting for me.”
“The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.”
“The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.”
“The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.”
“The history is teaching people,
people don't teach the history.
Science requires people to learn,
it does not wait for people to learn.”
“The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.”
“The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.”
“The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.”
“The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.”
“The history of a man is in his character.”
“The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.”
“The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.”
Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“The history of a people are found in its songs.”
“The history of a place fascinates me through the echoes and remains you learn alot”
Source: The World Adventures of Sahara the Mummy: The magical exploration of Ancient Egypt
“The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.”
Source: History of the Russian Revolution
“The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.”
Source: 3 Books by Laurence Sterne
“The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.”
Source: Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers
“The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.”
“The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.”
“The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”
Source: Essential Works of Lenin:
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto
“The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
“The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.”
Source: Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character
“The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life of believers, originate the most intense motives for the most significant creative performance, not only in the field of arts and sciences but also in politics.”
“The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.”
“The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.”
“The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.”
“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”