Coulanges Quotes & Sayings

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate? — Beatrice Sparks

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

History is and should be a science. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

Foreshadowing is the storytelling companion of fate. — John Irving

Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love. — Paulo Freire

overconfident individuals achieved higher social status, respect, and influence in groups. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be. — Jimmy Dean

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

It is extraordinary Monsieur Benoit, but everytime I think of your triple character as a landlord, a bootmaker, and a friend, I am tempted to believe in the Trinity. — Henri Murger