Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“When the [colonial] contact was violent, in fact, failure was more frequent than success. 'Colonialism' may have triumphed in the past: but today it… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
![“When the [colonial] contact was violent, in fact, failure was more frequent than success. 'Colonialism' may have triumphed in the past: but today it is an obvious fiasco. And colonialism, typically, is the submergence of one civilisation by another. The conqured always submit to the stronger; but their submission is merely provisional when civilisations clash. Long periods of enforced coexistence may include concessions or agreements and important, often fruitful, cultural exchange. But the process always has its limits.” quote by Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b15/fernand-braudel-28972_cultural-exchange_when-the-colonial-contact-was-violent-in_217303.jpg)
![“The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?” quote by Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/043/fernand-braudel-28972_able_the-key-problem-is-to-find-out-why-that_1776623.jpg)
