Israeli Historian Quotes

Flavius Josephus
Eusebius of Caesarea
Yuval Noah Harari
Yehuda Bauer
Zeev Sternhell
Shlomo Sand
Amir R. Alexander

Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.

Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari
In the form that it emerged at the turn of the century and developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the fascist ideology represented a synthesis of organic nationalism with the antimaterialist revision of Marxism. It expressed a revolutionary aspiration based on a rejection of individualism, whether liberal or Marxist, and it created the elements of a new and original political culture.

Zeev Sternhell
Zeev Sternhell
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

Flavius Josephus
Flavius Josephus
... the whole point of studying and teaching mathematics was that it demonstrated how universal truth imposed itself upon the world—rationally, hierarchically, and inescapably. Ideally, the Jesuits believed, the truths of religion would be imposed on the world just like geometrical theorems, leaving no room for avoidance or denial by Protestant or other heretics and leading to the inevitable triumph of the Church.

Amir R. Alexander
Amir R. Alexander
But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

Eusebius of Caesarea
Eusebius of Caesarea
Thou shall not be a perpetrator, thou shall not be a victim, and thou shall never, but never, be a basterd.

Yehuda Bauer
Yehuda Bauer
I don't think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.

Shlomo Sand
Shlomo Sand
The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war.