history Quotes

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.