Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.
History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes.
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.
There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.
That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.
I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.
I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today.
In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.
I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.
Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians of our country's history. Unfortunately, in America, we, you know, lock those elders away out of view in nursing homes and go about our little lives. It's a great national shame and an irredeemable tragedy. Oh well.