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“History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.”

Political History Conditions Capitalism Sufficient Political Freedom

Author:Milton Friedman

“The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.”

Men World Soul Law Simple Results History Conditions Produce Constant Laws Of Nature

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.”

Humans War Results History Conditions Affair Civil War Unexpected Rapids American Civil War Rapid Change

Book:Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts

Source: Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts

“But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper and natural level, and will resume those passions that seem the most adapted to its present condition.”

Humans May Character Seems Passion Natural Levels History Conditions Return Degrees Enthusiasm Temporary Exalted Adapted Roman Empire Resumes

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.”

Two Beautiful Natural Common History Environment Conditions Ordinary Criticism Historical Extraordinary Suspects Really Great Maxims Axioms Improbable

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.”

Helping Problem Seems Born History Democracy Conditions Areas Difficulty Burden Range Republic Nazi Commentators Starks Gloomy Nazi Germany

Book:A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation

Source: A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation

“Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.”

Men Should Doe Use Shows Pain Law Purpose Force History Conditions Dangerous Morality Easier Protect Labor Property Painful Tendencies Collectives Evident Resorts Plunder

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.”

Men Life Doe Soul Accepting History Conditions Sells Rejection

Book:Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels

Source: Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels

“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”

Action Energy Business Destiny History Conditions Health Depends Increase Chiefs Fulfillment Faculty American Dream Organisms Vitality Vigor

Author:Colin Powell

“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”

Art Philosophy Wisdom Change History Journey Conditions Movement Civilization Harbors Voyages

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.”

Knows Two Teach History Impossible Conditions Events Essentials Spring Identical

Author:Marc Bloch

“I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.”

People Humans Children Doe Play Facts Leader Class Knowledge History Conditions Weapons Gun Blind Sells Court Strikes Driven Civilized Betray Working Class Starvation Shortcomings

Author:Mother Jones

“Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.”

Writing Trying Age Past Form History Conditions Conception

Book:History, Frontier, and Section: Three Essays

Source: History, Frontier, and Section: Three Essays

“Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.”

People Government Nations Principles Teach History Teaching Conditions Involved Periods Circumstances Offers Connected Consideration Peculiar Rulers Statesmen Exhibits

Book:Reading Hegel: The Introductions

Source: Reading Hegel: The Introductions

“The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.”

“In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.”

Knows Individual Party History Conditions Accounts Estates

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the onset of economic recession in the late 1920s... The Nazis owed their spectacular to a combination of two discrete sets of factors: first, their distinctive organisation and strategy; and secondly, the wider socio-economic conditions which created climates of opinion and sets of grievances on which the Nazis could prey.”

“Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody. His main ability by far, as he came to realise during the course of 1919, was that in the prevailing circumstances he could inspire an audience which shared his basic political feelings, by the way he spoke, by the force of his rhetoric, by the very power of his prejudice, by the conviction he conveyed that there was a way out of Germany's plight.”

“Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.”

“If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.”

Ifs Men World Humans Names Race History Conditions Periods Historical Human Race World History Prosperous Hesitation Roman Empire

Author:Edward Gibbon

“Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either useful or agreeable, he might very naturally expect that the diligence and fidelity of a few years would be rewarded with the inestimable gift of freedom.”

Ifs Years Might Would Be Opportunity History Conditions Comfort Slave Denied Imperfect Fidelity Diligence Roman Empire Rendering

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

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