A. A. Gill Quotes, Two Quotes, History Quotes

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

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Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

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Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

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History is not written in the interests of morality.

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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

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I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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I am the dream and the hope of the slave

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