"The Bible, for all its riches, is not……" — Simon Schama

"The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history."

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57 Quotes by Simon Schama

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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…

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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally… — Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all… — Hannah Arendt
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and… — Hannah Arendt
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is… — Pietro Aretino
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle

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