Historian Quotes: Timeless Insights and Reflections (Page 3)

"The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out"

Iris Chang, Historian

"Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves"

Arrian, Historian

"The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion"

John Keegan, Historian

"The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma"

Philip Guedalla, Historian

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous"

Henry Adams, Historian

"You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live"

Donald Kagan, Historian

"A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better"

Cleveland Amory, Historian

"As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide"

Martin van Creveld, Historian

"The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects"

Herodotus, 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

"All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"History is Philosophy teaching by examples"

Thucydides, Historian

"Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many"

B. H. Liddell Hart, Historian

"A master of improvised speech and improvised policies"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing"

Henry B. Adams, Historian