Hourly History > Quotes

“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.” —General George S. Patton As”
― Hourly History, George Patton: A Life From Beginning to End

“Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.” —Ted”
― Hourly History, Adolf Hitler: A Life from Beginning to End

“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower”
― Hourly History, Dwight Eisenhower: A Life from Beginning to End

“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America?”
― Hourly History, Fidel Castro: A Life from Beginning to End

“The ego is not master in its own house .”
― Hourly History, Sigmund Freud: A Life from Beginning to End

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin”
― Hourly History, Charles Darwin: A Life from Beginning to End

“Leonardo believed that sight was the most significant sense of all and that one’s eyes were the most important.”
― Hourly History, Leonardo da Vinci: A Life from Beginning to End

“I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.” —Anne Frank”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.” —Genghis Khan”
― Hourly History, The Crusades: A History From Beginning to End

“A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option—for peace cannot exist where justice is not served.” —John Lewis”
― Hourly History, Civil Rights Movement: A History from Beginning to End

“Hamilcar Barca died in 228 BCE but not before forcing his younger son, Hannibal, to swear a blood oath against Rome.”
― Hourly History, Phoenician Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.” —Adolf Hitler”
― Hourly History, Adolf Hitler: A Life from Beginning to End

“Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.” —Claudius”
― Hourly History, Claudius: A Life From Beginning to End

“The history of Celtic mythology is held in the natural landscape, in the bloodlines of its people, in apparitions that manifest and then are gone as you glance their way. There is very little you can pin down, and there is much more than you can ever tell.”
― Hourly History, Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs

“perspective”
― Hourly History, Leonardo da Vinci: A Life from Beginning to End

“How much the Crusades were an aggressive act of Christian fanaticism and how much they were a defensive military intended to check the spread of Islam and reclaim Christian territory is still debated. What cannot be debated is that 1.7 million ordinary people, both Christian and Muslim, died as a result of the Crusades, and that loss of life cannot be considered chivalric in the slightest.”
― Hourly History, The Crusades: A History From Beginning to End

“Another of Mozart’s achievements was the technical advancement of established musical forms. He composed a prolific number of piano concertos and single-handedly managed to bring them back into mass popularity, largely due to his ability to infuse what was considered an old-fashioned form with new life and increased emotional reach. He dabbled in nearly every major genre, including the aforementioned popular operas he composed, as well as symphonies and even liturgical music. These genres were among the more serious and sophisticated genres with which he tinkered—Mozart also composed many forms of what would be considered light entertainment: serenades and court dances among them.”
― Hourly History, Mozart: A Life from Beginning to End

“Carthaginians surrendered. The 700-year-old city was”
― Hourly History, Phoenician Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

“despite the anti-Semitic attitudes of Vienna at”
― Hourly History, Adolf Hitler: A Life from Beginning to End

“Before his death, Sargon established a port city on the Euphrates River. This was Babylon,”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.”
― Hourly History, The Dutch East India Company: A History From Beginning to End

“The Maya did not emerge from the lost tribes of Israel or Atlantis. Instead, based on overwhelming evidence from linguistics, physical anthropology, and archaeology, ancestors of all New World people, including the Maya, migrated from Asia as nomadic hunters and gatherers. The debate surrounds the timing of their arrival in the Yucatan region and whether the migration across the Bering Strait occurred at about 12,000 BCE, 40,000 BCE or even earlier. Scholars continue to debate whether the Maya made the transition from hunting and gathering to farming villages in the lowland areas they occupied or if it spread into the lowlands from elsewhere.”
― Hourly History, Mayan Civilization: A History From Beginning to End

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower”
― Hourly History, Dwight Eisenhower: A Life from Beginning to End

“Tesla believed his mind to be superior to everyone else's - and he let others know it.”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“Truth is One: Sages call it by various names. It is the one sun which reflects in all the ponds; It is the one water which slakes the thirst of all; It is the one air which sustains all life; Systems of faith may be different, but God is one.”
― Hourly History, History of India: A History In 50 Events

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Hourly History, Fidel Castro: A Life from Beginning to End

“Germans”
― Hourly History, The Berlin Wall: A History from Beginning to End

“Following a long siege, the city fell later that year, signaling not just freedom for Babylon”
― Hourly History, Babylon: A History From Beginning to End

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” —George Orwell”
― Hourly History, Adolf Hitler: A Life from Beginning to End

“By the end of 146 BCE, Rome’s power extended from Spain’s Atlantic coast to the border between Greece and Asia Minor.”
― Hourly History, Phoenician Civilization: A History from Beginning to End