The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>