Best modern & history Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.”

Men Social Process History Modern Mass Productions Equality Commodity Equality Of People Art Of Loving Mass Production Social Equality Equality Of Man Standardization

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.”

Men War Use Used History Tree Feet Modern Movement Fields Essence Horse Strategy Faster Civil War Tied American Civil War Horsemen Infantry

Book:American Heritage History of the Civil War

Source: American Heritage History of the Civil War

“Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.”

Humans Made Purpose Strong Sex Women Destiny History Modern Subjects Effects Century Including Despite Human Life Dogma Assertion Nineteenth Century Strong Will Women In History

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.”

Thinking Enough Found History Modern Source Plot Professors Scholar Associates Chronicles Resourcefulness

Book:Twisted Tales from Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare's Best-known Plays are Presented in a New Light: The Old Light Having Blown a Fuse; Together with Introductions, Questions, Appendices, and Other Critical Apparatus Intended to Contribute to a Clearer Misunderstanding of the Subject

Source: Twisted Tales from Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare's Best-known Plays are Presented in a New Light: The Old Light Having Blown a Fuse; Together with Introductions, Questions, Appendices, and Other Critical Apparatus Intended to Contribute to a Clearer Misunderstanding of the Subject

“As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.”

Long War Passion Interest Justice History Modern Subjects Mankind Policy Council Antiquity Roman Empire Deliberation

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury.”