History Quotes - Page 18

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."

(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea.

He may be incensed, said Dizzy. I've never doubted the old parson's faith, but it has no place in politics. Good God, just imagine if each man allowed himself to be swayed by moral compunctions; we'd never get a damned thing accomplished in Parliament.

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Die größte Übeltat der protokollierten Menschheitsgeschichte ist der degoutante, mörderische Antigermanismus des 20. Jahrhunderts!

I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me.

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.

The two came to differ on many, if not most, issues. But the man who would single-handedly defy Hitler in 1940 against all odds bears a striking resemblance to the man who organized the first satyagraha campaign in South Africa.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast."

(History Will Teach Us Nothing)