Stanley Thomas Bindoff Quotes

All societies are historical.

History is the study of what civilizations die from. Literature is the study of what civilizations live for.

The general idea of history seems to be that it is the biography of a society…. History is to the common life of many what biography is to an individual.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

There is complete disdain for all that exists .... History, society, and the economics of present institutions are all minor issues in choosing a reform program ...

In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who do not bring much with them to its study.

while the modern historical school of economists appear to be only exploring the monuments of the past, they are really shaking the foundations of many of our institutions in the present.

You can tell an awful lot about a civilization by how it spends its money.

History is written not only for posterity but by posterity as well.

Everything new appears from the elements of the Past, because “ex nihilo nihil fit.” The prolific development of culture requires that the inventory of values be kept in the memory of tradition and passed to future generations

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mold the social life of mankind.

History is not the past. History is the present. We carry our history with us.

We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.

When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.

The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

I grew up loving history.