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.

Fools who don’t respect the past are doomed to repeat it.

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

I’m an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

I’m so disappointed that I live in the era where technology rule the world and pride is more important than kindness.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but...

You might be offered oatcakes as well as bread (especially in the north). If these do not tempt you, consider eating “horse-bread.” This is made from a sort of flour of ground peas, bran, and...

We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,–“blind as a bat,” for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat,...

The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation—that it was preferable to hang the accused first...

Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Aku tidak meminta Amerika memberi kami uang. Mereka pasti ingat, kami tekah mengemis sepanjang hidup kami. Kami tidak akan melakukannya lagi. Tapi ada bantuan yang tidak berwujud uang, apa yang sebenarnya kuinginkan dari Amerika ialah...

Bahkan mereka yang menentang politik Bung Karno mengakui, bahwa hanya Sukarno-lah yang dapat menyelamatkan Indonesia.

Di Saigon aku sudah merencanakan seluruh pekerjaan ini untuk dijalankan tanggak 17.””Mengapa tanggal 17, tidak lebih baik sekarang saja atau tanggal 16?””Aku percaya pada mistik. Aku tidak dapat menerangkan yang masuk akal mengapa tanggal 17...

Seorang pemimpin tidak berubah karena hukuman. Aku masuk penjara untuk memperjuangkan kemerdekaan, dan aku meninggalkannya dengan tujuan yang sama.

Mengejar kehidupan sendiri, sementara orang yang sudah dianggap sebagai keluarga berada dalam kesusahan, bukanlah cara orang Indonesia.

The wind helps me unwind. I make love like Don Quixote windmilled into history.

When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group–bacteria, mice, people–and subject that group to certain conditions. They compare the results with a second...

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that...

Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.

Martin Van Buren was a shitty guy. Not just because he was a bad president, and not just because he was pro-slavery. Van Buren was shitty in a very general sort of way. And with...

The ’80s were fabulous. The ’90s sucked, and the ’70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There’s something that’s just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail...

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others…Yet this music, the sound...

If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief...

Orang mempelajari Islam untuk mengetahui apa sebenarnya Islam itu.

From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine,...

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in...

Heroes didn’t win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story — the dead didn’t say a word. All of it was bullshit.

In a secular world, which is what most of us in Europe and North America live in, history takes on the role of showing us good and evil, virtues and vices. Religion no longer plays...

These are … sites that have a history of contamination, all of which are linked to massive neglect.

It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.

We don’t know history. We only know what has been written about it.

The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this...