For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

That was awesome. That was really cool, getting to meet one of the great power pitchers in the history of the game.

The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features...

The more they got into this, the more it seemed they had kind of a Shakespearean history, … By that, I mean there’s love and hate, and life and death, and revenge, betrayal and greed...

Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks...

It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.

The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the...

I personally recall that world, which you can only imagine was preferable to this one,’ she said. ‘Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp....

normal,” sane men and women are capable of evil, then the atrocities perpetrated during the Holocaust and other genocides could be repeated today and into the future.Yet, this is exactly the lesson we must learn...

The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.

Those institutions which are static in their nature raise walls of division; this is why, in the history of religions, priesthood has always maintained dissensions and hindered the freedom of man. But the principle of...

It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

And make no mistake about it, this attack was not just against ourselves or the Republic of Korea. This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among...

There’s no crying in the rank book.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

We were each of us trying; trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.

Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot – like an echo from history, still very alive.

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.

Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don’t allow you to live and Oxygen don’t let you die.

his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors…Now, with the help of the Roman historian Tacitus, I shall tell you Queen Boudicca’s story,...

The African continent has so many stories to tell, it’s about time they are told, by them – not us.

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.

When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.

precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan’s stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else – leave us alone already.

God was never created the economy.Men found it after banished from Eden.

Work, love, courage and hope,Make me good and help me cope!

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.

The present is the key to the past.

Just this past summer, I took online courses in introductory logic and law through civilization. Often the weight of history, with its facts heaped upon facts requiring complex chains of inference to sort through –...

Over the last six years, we have experienced the largest drop in price/earnings ratios in the history of the U.S. stock market, going back to 1871. 2006 has the potential to be a great year...

I know I’m biased because I’m his agent, but Ted Washington is probably the best nose tackle in the history of football. He’ll play hard every down. This is probably his last contract, but I...

Ideals are peaceful, history is violent.

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their...

It is of inestimable importance that the classical and biblical traditions linked slavery with original sin, punishment , the later abolition of slavery became tied with personal and collective freedom, with the redemption from sin,...

The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: … Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future...

Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels, but that they view him in a substantially different way —...

We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we’re making today.

What is realised in my history is not the past definitive of what it was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the...

History has rewritten itself so many times I’m not really sure how it was to begin with — it’s a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it’s been repainted...

‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century...

Next time!” In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

Now when we get to Watkins Glen, that’s going to be the slowest lap in history. I’m going to tell the team not to expect me to set a flyer on that first one.