Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Going down in history is a dead end pursuit

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.

Everything that looks good may not be good for you. In life, we all take chances. You must carefully examine the pros and cons. People often times have certain hidden agendas. And, you might not...

Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their society, but nevertheless the very dregs of human civilisation and moral standards. A...

I am the keeper of my husband’s history.

It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.

The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago.That gap is the matrix of Saudade – The Longing, I think, that all Africans in the West have, that is at the...

Ujasusi ni kitu cha muhimu kwa maendeleo ya nchi yoyote. Watu wanaoshughulika na ujasusi wanapaswa kuwa makini mno kwani kazi yao ni nyeti sana kulinganisha na kazi za watu wengine. Kosa dogo la kiusalama linaweza...

History is always a grand fantasy… To reconstruct is to invent.

Aren’t you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?””What’s the point?” said Ron. “You know it by heart, we can just ask you.

If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through...

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as ‘environmental determinism,’ the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies’ responses also...

I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and...

retrospective rewriting of the history.

Writing your own qoutes is like you started writing your history.

This happened back east of course. I’ve heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the country. But I never think of the term as a marker of geography. It’s a reference...

it was being written in the East that ‘Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality’.

Apabila seseorang mencoba untuk melukaiku dengan alasan pribadi yang bagaimanapun, aku merasa lemah untuk tidak memaafkannya. Tapi bila mereka dengan sengaja mencoba untuk menghancurkan negara, aku tidak akan mengampuninya.

Demoralisasi, disiplin yang merosot dan hilangnya kemauan membuat mereka bukanlah tandingan dari semangat yang menggelora dari para pemuda yang didukung oleh lencana Merah-Putih yang tersemat di dada mereka.Warna-warna ini tak diputus begitu saja untuk Revolusi....

Engkau tidak bisa membiarkan seorang pahlawan jatuh. Tunggulah saatnya.

Bung Karno, besok aku akan digantung. Aku meninggalkan dunia yang fana ini dengan hati gembira, pergi ke tiang gantungan dengan keyakinan dan kekuatan batin karena aku tahu Bung Karno akan melanjutkan perjuangan ini yang juga...

Regard for the past only extends to its outward forms.

The longer a life, the challenge is not the distance between destinations, but the difficulty of travelling light. My soul’s a portmanteau packed full, one half filled with what was, the other with what is,...

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go.

I’ve always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe’s way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us…they’re happening right now, cradled in...

Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history — and I am a student of human history.

When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief...

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and...

Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we...

Behind every legendary monster, there is an unknown tragedy.

Pokok terpenting bukanlah mencari hubungan melainkan menetapkan perbandingan.

History teaches us lessons. How come there are no Chinese in the valley now? They were all chased off.

When extremists come together extreme things happen.

Native Americans cured Cartier’s men of scurvy near Montreal in 1535. They repaired Francis Drake’s Golden Hind in California so he could complete his round-the-world voyage in 1579. Lewis and Clark’s expedition to the Pacific...

truths” and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins.

It is a distinct pleasure to meet you, Steadholder.

Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you’re an inconsequential worm in the grand scope of history. But you’re an inconsequential worm who makes shit up for a...

The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.

Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people – people like you and me who did things to change the world.

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.

To write good history is the noblest work of man.

Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found...

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young...

Sometimes I feel like we’re a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.