Theodore Zeldin Quotes - Page 2

• People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

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  Lonely, Communication, Talking

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• El gran atractivo de la moda es que desvió la atención de los problemas insolubles de la belleza y proporcionó una vía fácil -que el dinero podía comprar...- hacia un ideal de belleza sencillamente enunciado y fácilmente reproducible, por muy temporal que fuera ese ideal.

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  Fashion, Attention, Way

  Theodore Zeldin (1993). “A History of French Passions 1848-1945: Intellect, Taste, and Anxiety”, p.441, Oxford University Press

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• The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.

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  Laughter, Order, People

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• Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.

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  People, Black, Needs

  1995 Quoted in Christina Hardyment 'Zeldin and the art of human relationships', in Oxford Today, vol.7, no.2, Hilary Issue.

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• The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

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  People, Way, Reputation

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• No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.

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  Victory, Important, Overcoming

  "Una historia íntima de la humanidad". Libro de Theodore Zeldin, 1994.

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• The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

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  Looks, Gone, Century

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• The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

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  Ideas, Foundation, World

  Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.16, Random House

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• Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

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  Gente, Juntos, Doe

  "Foibles..." by Sandra Deeble, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2001.

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• Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

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  Parent, Ambitious, Humans

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• The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

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  Claims, Made, Conversation

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