#history

How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side benefited most form this unseemly marriage between church and state? Or, to put it another way, did the empire surrender to Christianity, or did Christianity prostitute itself to the empire? It is characteristic of the complexities of early Christian history that we cannot give a definite answer to this question. ↗

— Paul Johnson

#history #marriage

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#lessons #men

Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota. ↗

— Dave Barry

#native-americans #us-history #men

History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#history-politics #peacekeepers #wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable. ↗

— Bill Loguidice

#inspirational #science #inspirational

Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it. ↗

— Charles Carleton Coffin

#the-story-of-liberty #age

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity. ↗

— C.L.R. James

#history #masses #men

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions? ↗

— G.F. Smith

#inspiration #literary #metaphysics #paranormal #religion

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate. ↗

— New York Times April

#history #inspirational #lincoln #motivational #inspirational