The Lessons of History-Summary and Review
The Lessons of History is a must-read! One of the best books I’ve ever read. The authors wrote 11 volumes about history than summarized it in one book. Learn about now from everything that’s ever happened. As well as predict the future. I already want to reread it to take even more out of it.
- As religion goes, so does the civilization
- Never take advice politically or financially from anyone under 30
- Revolution doesn’t cause anything to happen that wouldn’t have happened with some patience. It also kills the father and the son in the process.
- Those that take over in a revolution, inevitably become the new tyrants.
- America is modern Rome, France modern Greece.
- War will never end. Those civilizations that co-operate only do so out of competition with others.
- War is what nations do to not starve. Run out of resources? Take your neighbors.
- You need both sides, conservatives and loud mouth liberals. They need each other to balance out change though they hate each other. Liberal youth pushes for change, old conservatives put on the brakes so it doesn’t go too crazy. Most ideas are terrible in comparison to the ones that have come out of centuries of societies, so they need a filter before being utilized.
- The further west you go, the more manners get worse
- There will always be a concentration of wealth, no matter what.
- Equal rights doesn’t mean equal ability and ambition. So those that have the temperament and drive will amass much more wealth than those without. Communism would equalize money for everyone by restricting everyone’s freedom. You can’t have it both ways.
- Civilizations are like organic beings. They live and die inevitably.
- Communism can only live on in a wartime era.
- Capitalism is pursuing socialistic trends, and Communism seeks capitalistic themes. The centrist way is the best.
- Only through great liberty can a dictatorship, take place.
- Freedom can only exist with rules of conduct and laws. So order is more important than liberty.
- Nature’s idea of good and bad differ much from ours. Things that survive are good, things that don’t are bad.
- The smarter we get, the sadder we get.
- Amass easy living, more rights, better technology, more world knowledge, but fewer values, manners, family life, and much more depressed.
- We’re only advanced because of the chains of civilizations before us. Wipe that out, and we start completely from the beginnings as savages.