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"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness"
Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian
"It is better to be a has-been than a never-was"
C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian
"Expenditures rise to meet income"
C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian
"Delay is the deadliest form of denial"
C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian
"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society"
Michel Foucault, Historian
"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"
Marc Bloch, Historian
"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding"
Marc Bloch, Historian
"Fear is the parent of cruelty"
James Anthony Froude, Historian
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars"
Charles A. Beard, Historian
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence"
Charles A. Beard, Historian
"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will"
Stephen Ambrose, Historian
"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction"
Christopher Lasch, Historian
"What we share with another ceases to be our own"
Edgar Quinet, Historian
"Heroism is endurance for one moment more"
George F. Kennan, Historian
"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history"
Samuel E. Morison, Historian
"I am convinced that we are in a terminal process"
E. P. Thompson, Historian
"History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all"
Fernand Braudel, Historian
"For me, archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources"
Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Historian
"Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law"
Alan Bullock, Historian
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
Lord Acton, Historian
"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul"
Lord Acton, Historian
"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience"
Johan Huizinga, Historian
"He was as great as a man can be without morality"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"A friend in power is a friend lost"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"A bad peace is even worse than war"
Tacitus, Historian
"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure"
Tacitus, Historian
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace"
Tacitus, Historian
"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
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