Best history & culture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.”

World Way Made Stills Two Stories Culture Heaven History Humour Mets Jokes Blind Historical Empires Handful Astonishing Contagious Bullied Stout Blind Date Great Historical

Author:A. A. Gill

“Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.”

Art Philosophy Form Culture History Youth Blessed Speed Boat

Author:Epicurus

“For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.”

Humans Has Beens Stories Culture Girl Human Beings History Our Lives Listening Female Importance Treated Storytelling Gossip Ignored Discouraged Seriousness Marginalized

Author:Gloria Steinem

“It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.”

Culture Individual Nations Forget Consciousness History Forgotten Denial Phenomenon

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”

“All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!”

Culture Speak Voice Talking History Alive Objects Phases Interrelatedness

Author:Camille Paglia

“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”

Lying Culture History Events Fool Accounts Soldier Propaganda Historian Rulers World History Unimportant Knaves Historical Events Great History

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

Different War Culture Poor Race History Creation Humour Communication Fishes Barriers Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide Hitchhiking Different Races Babel

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”

Inspirational Writing Said Two Book Motivational Culture Causes History Written Winner Loser Foe Clash Glorify Fables History Books Two Cultures

Book:The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

“We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.”

People Made Culture Language Destiny History Fate South Tied Our Destiny Tied Up

Author:Mangosuthu Buthelezi

“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”

World Humans Has Beens Said Spirit Culture Known History Dance Human Spirit Art And Culture Cultures Of The World

Author:Matthew Arnold

“I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.”

Men Wells Motivational Culture History Land Acceptance Diversity Social Justice Brave Settling Glorious Pioneers Belittle Sombreros

Author:Edna Ferber

“The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.”

“Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.”

Source: Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912

“When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.”

Men Real Facts Stories Reality Faces Science Culture Break History Written Rocks Pages Stones Scientist Exposed Hammers Printed

Book:Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

Source: Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

“Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.”

Long Culture Courses Term History Path Special Products Mere Accidents Ideology Long Term Logical Trends Nazism Nazi Germany Inexorable Culmination German History

Book:Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

Source: Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

“The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.”

Real Seems Culture History Doors Murder Afternoon Traps Bats 1960s American Culture November Advertising Agencies

Author:Lance Morrow

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