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History Quotes by Antony Beevor
- I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
- I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for…
- The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show…
- Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
- At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations…
- Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
- Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we…
- Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will…
- I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the…
- Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough