#history

The notion of displacement destabilizes spatial hierarchies of senders and receivers, and turns the issue of historical causality into one or more negotiable genealogy and interpretative communities. ↗

— Charlotte Bydler

#sweden #art

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#cumulative #democracy #education #history #inheritance

Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and immediacy of the present crowds out the echoes and lessons of the past. It would be a shame if that were to happen with respect to the fur trade. It is a seminal part of who we are as a nation, and how we came to be. ↗

— Eric Jay Dolin

#astor #beaver #buffalo #fur #fur-trade

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness. ↗

— Desmond Seward

#german #history #knights #monk #war

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon? ↗

— Dan Brown

#culture

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#conflicts #device #eliminate #entire #found

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#appearance #artificial #background #book #calculated

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#economic #economic recovery #financial #financial system #get

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. ↗

— Joe Biden

#double #graduated #history #i #major

It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#respect