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History Quotes by Simon Schama
- There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
- The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very peculiar political animal.…
- To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that…
- These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority - the party of…
- Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.
- The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed…
- Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy,…
- Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different,…
- In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just…
- In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.
- I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.
- History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at…
- The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
- I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead…
- Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but…
- History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
- It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely,…
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