Famous quotes by Historians

"Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change"

Herodotus, Historian

"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways, equality and freedom of speech are a good thing"

Herodotus, Historian

"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

"No war is inevitable until it breaks out"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

"Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing""

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed"

Sallust, Historian

"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay"

Sallust, Historian

"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"The strong do what they have to do, and the weak accept what they have to accept"

Thucydides, Historian

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it"

Thucydides, Historian

"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies"

Marc Bloch, Historian

"The sea hath fish for every man"

William Camden, Historian

"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence, and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because pretty much basketball players always got the girl"

Eric Williams, Historian

"In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him"

Henry Adams, Historian

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops"

Henry Adams, Historian

"Righteousness is easy in retrospect"

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Historian

"The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands"

Robert Conquest, Historian

"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image"

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Historian

"It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific, you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before"

Iris Chang, Historian

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