History Quote by Tony Horwitz

“Smiths were sacred in the old days. We know that they made a secret of their trade which overrode the bounds of district, tribe,…

— Andre Norton

“While the hardware of civilization - iron pots, blankets, guns - was welcomed by Native people, the software of Protestantism and Catholicism - original…

— Thomas King

“History is a cookbook. The tyrants are chefs. The philosophers write menus. The priests are waiters. The military men are bouncers. The singing you…

— Charles Simic

“The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a…

— Tosca Lee

What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of guilt about…

— Roger Kimball

“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the belief in…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“We have adopted European costume, European ways of living, even the European vices of drinking and gambling, but none of their virtues. This must…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“But it was only the twentieth century in Europe that had universal education and the belief in progress - a net gain of knowledge…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples…

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

“And we know that the period during which the influence of Christian theism was strongest, was the period when the intellectual life of civilised…

— Chapman Cohen

“But as nothing, Western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to Westernise amounted mostly to the erasure of the past;…

— Orhan Pamuk

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

— John Oliver Killens