History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the...

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past — no matter how good it was.

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behavior.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future… There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

The Noblest form of Affection

I believe the momentum that is now building up will give us a chance to change the course of history and head off a pandemic caused by the H5N1 virus.

Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

Here we introduce the nation’s first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history’s first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western Union’s man was one Rutherford B....

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

Thus the word “inhuman”, in this book’s title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn’t.

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of...

I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I...

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics … would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

History does seem to repeat itself hence it’s mindboggling to still hear the ‘avoid all negative people’ speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding...

countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they’ve already been around into the distant future.

DNA has memory!

My parents didn’t grow up here or anything. They chose to live in this nowhere town. Why? Because it was named after Hannibal of Carthage. Their basic train of thought was this: Hannibal’s Rest? And...

I heard my teacher said “great people make history”. I am not concern about “great” or “people” or “history”. I am concerned about “make” and it keeps me asking the next question “how?”! They are...

Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday’s stories into our lives today

Film seharusnya menjadi alat untuk meningkatkan solidaritas antar bangsa di dunia, bukan untuk menghancurkannya. Inilah cara yang murah untuk menunjukkan keramahan kepada kami. Tanpa dollar. Sekadar membuat film yang menunjukkan Amerika menyukai kami. Ternyata di...

Dibanding dengan wilayah kepulauan kami, Irian Barat hanya selebar daun kelor, tetapi Irian Barat adalah sebagian dari tubuh kami. Apakah seseorang akan membiarkan salah satu anggota tubuhnya diamoutasi tanpa melakukan perlawanan? Apakah seseorang tidak akan...

Ketika aku melangkah ke mimbar, aku dibentengi oleh tubuh mereka yang membentuk tameng dari darah dan daging. Siapapun yang ingin mendekatiku, terlebih dulu harus menembus beberapa lapisan manusia.

Seorang pahlawan yang hanya mau menjalankan kebaikan tidak pernah kalah untuk selama-lamanya.

Nasionalisme tanpa keadilan sosial adalah nihilisme. Bagaimana suatu negeri yang miskin dan sangat buruk seperti negeri kami dapat menganut suatu aliran selain sosialisme?

Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms, mother of two kings? My guts are torn from me, my...

It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and...

It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of itRobert E. Lee

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas...

You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

…this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it’s worth trying to...

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

Sukses yang diperoleh Islam menyeluruh dan juga amat menarik perhatian. Sebagai telah kita sebut, usaha (umat islam itu) bukan hanya membuat mereka berkuasa, tetapi juga besar. Di samping memperoleh kekuasaan politik dan ekonomi dengan cepat,...

Remove yourself, sir!

There will come a time,’ I said, ‘when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or...

Let them Teach,Let them learn,let them pray,for the world is theirs.

Oblivion has always been the most trustworthy guardian of classified files.

The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in the ‘Protogaea’ and of Buffon in his ‘Théorie de la Terre;’ the sober...

Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the...