The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.