History Quote by James V. Schall

“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of conscience.”

— George Dennison

“takes us the farther distance from the Old World to something new and revolutionary in human thought. That moral center, however, is hard to…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic…

— Peter L. Berger

“In short, one may say anything about the history of the world—anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The moral judgments and acts of the soul all involve an exercise of reason, so that it is impossible to separate the ethical and…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

— Gerald R. Ford

“There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.”

— Jodi Picoult

“For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, “history originated as myth” and becomes a “social memory” to which men can appeal, “knowing it will…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had…

— T.M. Williams

“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion was in…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past?”

— Max Brooks