Analysis Quote by Carroll Quigley

“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with…

— Niall Ferguson

“Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs…

— Jackson Spielvogel

“The Decline of Western Civilization Part II”

— Anonymous

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

— Andrzej Duda

Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see…

— Pankaj Mishra

Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin of a…

— Tim Crane

I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But…

— Francis Fukuyama

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations that present…

— Ralph Snyderman

“interrelated. In contrast to the Western approach of treating history as a process of modernity achieving a series of absolute victories over evil and…

— Henry Kissinger

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is…

— George Santayana

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because…

— Hannah Arendt