Crane Brinton quotes

Crane Brinton quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.”
-- Crane Brinton

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“It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.”
“History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.”

Source : A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.45, Routledge
“Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.”
“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
“History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.”
“In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.”
“Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes”

Source : "Beastie Boys: 'We can't make new music' and may never play live again" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.
“There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.”
“A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.”
“We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.”

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