History Quote by Michael Wood Download Open image ““The theologian and the executioner have been intimates throughout history.”” — Michael Wood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“...it is contrary to reason and experience to suppose that there can be any real check to brutality, consistent with leaving the victim still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where one needs to choose - to be the victim or the executioner, and nothing else.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“My point is not to grieve for the victims and denounce the executioners. Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral energy for the present. And the lines are not always clear. In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs),… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
“Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardner.” — George Herbert Copy Share Image
We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not… — John Milton Copy Share
“If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.” — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The one will triumph who first died for the victims then also for the executioners, and in so doing revealed a new righteousness which… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The bloodiest tragedies in the world have been acted on the stage of the church; and the most inhuman massacres and butcheries committed on… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“Home is what we know we ought to want but can't really take. America is not so much a home for anyone as a… — Michael Wood Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
