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Category: History and Nations

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1. "Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."

Marlene Dietrich, "Marlene Dietrich's ABC"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

2. "I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

Charles Dickens

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

3. "Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."

George Orwell, "The Lion and the Unicorn"

Quotations about: Peace and War

4. "A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else."

George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull's Other Island"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

5. "Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Freedom and Servitude

6. "Every time history repeats itself the price goes up."

Anon.

7. "In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."

Stefan Zweig, "Stellar Moments in Human History"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

8. "American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe."

Harold Rosenberg, "The Tradition of the New"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

9. "Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state - everything is a pretext for a good dinner."

Jean Anouilh, "Cécile"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

10. "Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."

James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name"

Quotations about: Various

11. "Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, then establish a million dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer."

Stanley Rudin

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

12. "Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart."

Yasir Arafat

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

13. "History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the the movements of the world gave a chance for it."

Walter Bagehot, "Physics and Politics"

14. "The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."

Walter Bagehot, "Physics and Politics"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

15. "Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, "Beyond the Mexique Bay"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

16. "Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum."

P.J. O`Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

17. "America is a young country with an old mentality."

George Santayana, "Winds of Doctrine"

18. "When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London."

Bette Midler

19. "France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America.""

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Marriage

20. "History is the short trudge from Adam to atom."

Leonard Louis Levinson

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21. "America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."

Laurence J. Peter

22. "Some people make headlines while others make history."

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

23. "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

Gore Vidal

Quotations about: Patriotism

24. "A mere fact will never stop an Englishman."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Various

25. "History is statistics in a state of progression; statistics is history at a stand."

Ludwig Schlozer

Quotations about: Science and Technology

26. "An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."

Mark Twain

27. "It is the great north wind that made the Vikings."

Scandanavian proverb

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

28. "Three Spaniards, four opinions."

Spanish proverb

29. "Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation."

Kim Stanley Robinson, "Red Mars"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

30. "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to decadence without the usual interval of civilization."

Georges Clemenceau

31. "Ideas shape the course of history."

John Maynard Keynes

32. "The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Thomas Carlyle

33. "History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."

E. L. Doctorow

34. "History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology."

James A. Garfield

35. "From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."

Napoleon Bonaparte

36. "Cricket is a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of Eternity."

Stormont Mancroft, "A Chinaman in My Bath"

37. "The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves."

James A. Garfield

38. "Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security."

Alexander Haig

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

39. "United States: .... A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies."

John Ralston Saul, "The Doubter's Companion"

40. "Justice is the bread of the nation, it is always hungry for it."

François-René de Chateaubriand

Quotations about: Justice

41. "America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote."

Bill Vaughan

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

42. "Canada is a country built against any common, geographic, historic or cultural sense."

Pierre Trudeau

43. "The happiest times of humanity are the blank pages in the book of history."

Leopold von Ranke

Quotations about: Happiness

44. "In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One."

Yakov Smirnoff

Quotations about: Authority, Government

45. "History ought never to be confused with nostalgia; it's written not to revere the dead, but to inspire the living. It's our cultural bloodstream, the secret of who we are. And it tells us to let go of the past, even as we honor it; to lament what ought to be lamented, to celebrate what should be celebrated."

Simon Schama

46. "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America."

Jimmy Carter

Quotations about: Justice

47. "World history is the world's court."

Friedrich von Schiller, "Resignation"

48. "In America nothing dies easier than tradition."

Russell Baker

49. "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."

Ambrose Bierce

Quotations about: Peace and War

50. "The French courage proceeds from vanity - the German from phlegm - the Turkish from fanaticism and opium - the Spanish from pride - the English from coolness - the Dutch from obstinacy - the Russian from insensibility - but the Italian from anger."

George Gordon Byron

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

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