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“The only true history, which can advance only through mutual aid, is universal history.”
“As in Vietnam, the Americans were much concerned to win what they called “the war for hearts and minds,” even through it did not square very well with the censorship that the Iraqi interim government imposed. Nor did the stories of torture that leaked out of Abu Ghraib and other prisons improve the situation.”
“What´s past is prologue.”
“You do push your filthy drugs on the schoolchildren of Ireland, and if you concentrated exclusive on the Protestants I´d say all well and good, but you don´t, you take all corners.”
Sarah Katharina Kayß | United Kingdom
“Nor does it matter that Mau Mau was not victorious on the battlefield. No more so was Algeria’s FLN, nor yet the boys in the Zimbabwean bush. If the Portuguese were driven out of Angola and Mozambique it was scarcely by united nationalist forces. The ANC of South Africa possibly killed more of its own men than it did members of the South African defence forces. Guerrilla fighters more often win by surviving as a threat, by imposing unacceptable financial and political costs upon the incumbent regime, than by outright military victory.”
John Lonsdale & E.S. Atieno Odhiambo
“If Sir Winston Churchill were alive today, I believe he would probably emigrate to Rhodesia – because I believe that all those admirable qualities and characteristics of the British that we believed in, loved and preached to our children, no longer exist in Britain.”
Jennifer Stahlschmidt | Germany
“Postmodernity is not an autonomous historical period or an era, subsequent to modernity as its replacement or negation. It is a dominant trend within late (or recently matured) modernity, a time of taking inventory of critical assessment.”
“Phrases which held a world of idealism and poetry have been spoilt by their use in bad verse and afterdinner perorations.”
„Nothing happens. And still, it is not nothing. To invoke things that have never happened is noble, but how much sweeter to remain realm of the naked eye.“
“Perhaps it is a good time to remind ourselves of the value of the past as a guide to the future.”
Kokopelli Guadarrama | Switzerland
“All states that claim to be nations have skeletons in their cupboards, stained with fratricidal blood.”
John Lonsdale & E.S. Atieno Odhiambo
Sarah Katharina Kayß | United Kingdom
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Francis Raven | My Medicine Cabinet | United States
“France has reinvented itself in its citizens` blood many times since 1789. When Italy was united in 1860 less than 5 per cent of its population spoke Italian. Prussia imposed its own idea of a united Germany, by blood and iron, after the revolutionary year of 1848 […] had proved how dangerous […] a unified sense of nationhood could be. Belgium has two national languages, often barely on speaking terms. Europe’s successor states to the Austro-Hungarian empire continue to subdivide, at times envenomed against each other by the bloody ethnic cleansing of untidy, irredentist, cultural minorities.”
John Lonsdale & E.S. Atieno Odhiambo
“I believe in the British Empire. Without the Empire, Britain would be like a head without a body.”
“I’m sure you’ll be having a nice little tea party with your fellow war criminal, Tony Blair. Please wash the cucumber sandwiches down with a glass of blood, with my compliments.”
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Sarah Katharina Kayß | United Kingdom
“World historians tend to see the past […] as a system of interactions and encounters in which humanity as a whole participated in a vast adventure of development.” These historians “focus on encounters rather and comparison rather than on hegemony and dominance.”
Kokopelli Guadarrama | Switzerland
“History with the lineal and universalist vision of Western culture can live without a global explanation of the past which gives sense to the present and guidance to the paths of the future.”
“When primitive warriors put on war paint, it was not only to protect themselves by magic symbols but to intimidate the enemy by showing him painly that they meant business – death and destruction.”
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Sarah Katharina Kayß | United Kingdom
“The problem in 1956, as with the 2003 Iraq War, was that what Crossman described as “the policy least unlikely to fail” was the least acceptable opinion to British policymakers.”
“Let us resolve to built not to destroy, and let us remember always that weakness comes from division, strength from unity.”
“The final goal – not yet attained – always remains the conception and composition of a history of mankind.”
Sarah Katharina Kayß | United Kingdom
“The Past is not dead – it´s not even past.”
“War…has no power to transform, it merely exaggerates the good and evil that are in us."
Sarah Katharina Kayß | United Kingdom
“Today, it is increasingly widely recognized that historical understanding, if it is kept within those narrow national boundaries, will not equip the citizen of the 21st century anywhere on earth to understand their world. They may, or may not, be citizen of a new world empire – perhaps an economic, cultural, or media empire, if not a political one. They may be even barbarians, outcasts, or refugees knocking vainly at the gates of such an empire. But they will be world citizens, more fully than their ancestors ever were. To understand what that means, they will need to know something about the global empires of the past.”
Aurélien Huyghe | Slave | France
“One thing about the IRA anyways, as much as I hate the bastards, you´ve got to hand it to them, they know how to make a decent bomb.”
character Padraic/ Martin McDonagh
“It must finally get rid of the seductive but nonsensical and extremely costly illusion that is called the Revolution in Military Affairs. Instead, it must realize the nature of the problem – insurgency, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism, possibly, one day, armed with weapons of mass destruction – and learn to deal with it.”
Francis Raven | Signs | United States
“For centuries, the European imperial powers had extended the dominion over Asia and Africa. Convinced of their political, economic and cultural superiority, the European powers brought the Afro-Asian world under political tutelage and economic domination, while also proclaiming the civilizing influence of European colonial expansion. Their main threat to their hegemony lay less in the resistance of their subjects than in the risk that the imperialists might fall out between themselves, indeed, they did, and after igniting two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century they had all but destroyed one another.”
Kaspar Steffen | China | Russia | Mongolia | Kazakhstan
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it.”
Kokopelli Guadarrama | Switzerland
“All that exists /
Matters to man; he mind what happens /
And feels he is at fault, a fallen soul /
With power to place, to explain every /
What in his world but why he is neither /
God nor good.”
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Sarah Katharina Kayß | Germany
“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks that he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”
“The Past is not dead – it´s not even past.”
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Marc Bloch, 1886-1944, French historian, in: Bloch: The Historian´s Craft, Manchester 1992, p. 39.
Martin van Creveld, (*1946), is an Israeli military historian and theorist, cf.: Martin van Creveld: The Changing Face of War, Combat from the Marne to Iraq, New York 2008 (2nd ed.), p. 251.
William Shakespeare in “The Tempers”.
Martin McDonagh, (*1970) English-born Irish playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter, character Padraic in: Martin McDonagh: The Lieutnant of Inishmore, London 2001, p. 12.
John Lonsdale & E.S. Atieno Odhiambo (eds.) Lonsdale/British historian & Odhiambo/1945-2009, kenyan sociologist, in their introduction to “Mau Mau and Nationhood”, Oxford 2003, p.3.
Ian Smith, 6. November 1966 in the Sunday Times, quoted in: Webster, Wendy: “There will always be an England”, Representations of Colonial Wars and Immigration 1948-1968, in: The Journal of British Studies 40/4 (2001), p. 581.
Ignacio Olábarri, Spanish historian, quoted: F. Jameson: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of late Capitalism, Bloomington, Indiana 1986, quoted: Olábarri: “New” new historiy?, A Longue Durée Structure, in: History and Theory 34 (1995), p. 26.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist and Unionist politician, quoted in: Niall Ferguson: Empire, How Britain Made the Modern World, London 2004 (2nd ed.), pp. 323 f.
Paul Auster, * 1947, US-american author, cit.: White Spaces 1978, in: Disappearances, Vom Verschwinden, Hamburg 2001, S. 188.
Edmund Burke,(1729 –1797), Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher.
John Lonsdale & E.S. Atieno Odhiambo (eds.) Lonsdale/British historian & Odhiambo/1945-2009, kenyan sociologist, in their introduction to “Mau Mau and Nationhood”, Oxford 2003, p.1.
John Enoch Powell, (1912-1998) British Conservative politician, quoted in: Berkeley, Humphrey: The Odyssey of Enoch, A political memoir, London 1977, p. 52, quoted in: Webster, Wendy: “There will always be an England”, Representations of Colonial Wars and Immigration 1948-1968, in: The Journal of British Studies 40/4 (2001), p. 582.
Harold Pinter, 1930-2008, British playwright, addressing George W. Bush in the Guardian on 18. November 2003, http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/nov/18/usa.iraq (consulted on 2. December 2010).
Gale Stokes, US-American historican, in: Gale, Stokes: The Fate of Human Societies, A Review of Recent Macrohistories, in: The American History Review 2001/106, p. 510.
Charles Roetter in: Psyhcological Warfare, London 1974, p. 8.
Peter J. Beck, British Historian in International History, in: “The less said about Suez the better”, British Governments and the Politics of Suez’s History, 1956-67, in: English Historical Review 508 (2009), p. 640.
Harold Macmillan, Prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963, in his “Wind of Change” speech, 3. February 1960, DO 35/10570, no 53.
Leopold von Ranke, 1795- 1886, German historian, in: Fragments from the 1860s, in: The Varieties of History, ed. by Stern, F., New York 1972, p. 61.
William Faulkner, 1897-1962, Nobel Prize-winning American author.
Charles McMoran Wilson, 1st Baron Moran, (1882-1977), “Anatomy of Courage”, 1945, cf.: Dave Grossman: On Killing, The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, New York 2009 (3rd ed.).
Stephen Howe, British historian, see: Stephen Howe: Empire, A very short introduction, Oxford 2002, S. 128 f.
Martin McDonagh, (*1970) English-born Irish playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter, character Padraic in: Martin McDonagh: The Lieutnant of Inishmore, London 2001, p. 14.
Martin van Creveld, (*1946), is an Israeli military historian and theorist, cf.: Martin van Creveld: The Changing Face of War, Combat from the Marne to Iraq, New York 2008 (2nd ed.), p. 278.
James Bamberg, in: British Petroleum and Global Oil, 1950-1975, The Challenge of Nationalism, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2000, p. 9.
George Santayana, (1863-1952), was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.
A. J. Muste, (1885-1967), was a socialist active in the pacifist movement, the labor movement, and the US civil rights movement.
William Faulkner, 1897-1962, Nobel Prize-winning American author.
John Lonsdale & E.S. Atieno Odhiambo (eds.) Lonsdale/British historian & Odhiambo/1945-2009, kenyan sociologist, in their introduction to “Mau Mau and Nationhood”, Oxford 2003, p. 1.
Ignacio Olábarri, Spanish historian, quoted: Olábarri: “New” new historiy?, A Longue Durée Structure, in: History and Theory 34 (1995), p. 28.
Wystan Hugh Auden, (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet in “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue”, 1948.
Canadian historian, in: “Beyond the Cold War--Again: 1955 and the 1990s”, in: Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 108/1 ( 1993), p. 59.