“No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.”
"Sources of Tolerance" (1930); also in The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1952), p. 79.
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American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge 1872–1961Related quotes
“History can never be covered up. AZ Quotes”
Zhu Rongji (1928) former Premier of the People's Republic of China
As quoted in [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/04/23/china-org China.org in New Yorker (23 April, 2001).
Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930) British Conservative politician and statesman
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/may/16/ireland-irish-policy-of-the-government#column_836 in the House of Commons (16 May 1882) denouncing the Kilmainham Treaty <br class="br">Backbench MP
“One may quote bad poetry if it is by a great poet.”
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos book Les Liaisons dangereuses
On peut citer de mauvais vers, quand ils sont d'un grand poète. <br class="br">Letter 4: Le Vicomte de Valmont to la Marquise de Merteuil. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_4 <br class="br">Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
“The slave and master in one skin
Is all your history, no more, no less”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: Why have you been so blind?
Why have you never seen?
The slave and master in one skin
Is all your history, no more, no less
Confess! This is what you've been.
“I do not quote from the scriptures;
I simply see what I see.”
Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet
Azfar Hussain translations
Leszek Kolakowski (1927–2009) Philosopher, historian of ideas
New Preface, p. vi
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978)
“By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”
Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code
Source: The Da Vinci Code
“The cure to misunderstanding history is to read more, not less.”
Joseph Nye (1937) American political scientist
Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 1, Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics?, p. 19.