It’s true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.

Seorang diktaktor memiliki suatu partai di belakangnya yang selalu siap mengambil kekuasaan. Sukarno tidak punya. Sukarno tidak memiliki organisasi yang mendukungnya. Seorang diktaktor memerintah dari tahtanya. Soekarno tidak berada di tengah rakyat. Sukarno adalah rakyat.Tidak,...

Dalam perjuangan antara dua kekuatan, bukanlah badan besar yang menentukan kemenangan, tetapi taktik dan strategi – Gatot Mangkupraja

Andaikan Pope berangkat dari pangkalan Inggris atau Amerika, apakah kami tidak patut marah dan mengutuk negara-negara imperialis yang mencoba hendak mengadakan subversi di negeri kami?

Bebek berjalan beramai-ramai, tetapi burung elang terbang sendirian.

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we’re losing the...

One of the greatest days in Austrian ski history. We are all happy, very happy. You can only dream of 14 medals, but today it was more than a dream.

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing,...

The day I became a writerit wasn’t the day a whore paid me in sexin exchange for one of my bookswhich happened often and more and moreas time went onit wasn’t the first time someone...

Here again, it occurred to me, was the unique problem that faces my generation, the generation of those who had been, say, seven or eight years old during the mid-1960s, the generation of the grandchildren...

The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma

Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes...

Such elusive puzzles recall the historian’s basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes...

That’s where the history is, and that’s where it should stay.

Solidaritas Islam hanya merupakan pengandaian sepintas lalu, yang berubah ubah dan tidak pasti sifatnya – Jaques Duchesne-Guillemin

Once people get hung up on theology, they’ve lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

Of all the names in telecom, only one has the history of AT&T. AT&T was the name of the phone company since we were kids, and in fact since our parents and our grandparents were...

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of...

We have found it hard [to get credit-history problems straightened out] for consumers who live abroad and don’t have a U.S. address for mail.

He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and...

Over time, over history, it has always been a market that people have turned to when there has been an element of uncertainty in other asset classes. It’s a question of diversification.

Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts — tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And...

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. ‘The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,’ she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. ‘Nonsense, Patricia,’ I tell her as I climb on...

Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their...

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted backdrop for thrilling scenes of adventure in private life. Nowadays, history moves...

I failed to convince President Nixon that morning and the rest, as they say, is history.

They could have taken the ‘history’ slant of it. They could have taken a ‘homemade’ slant of it. They just went for ‘strong,’ … You know, the mint’s so strong it has to be in...

Țăranii, în orice caz cei cu oarecare stare, nu aveau niciun motiv să se lase atrași de ideologia comunistă: doreau să-și rotunjească proprietățile, nicidecum să le piardă; țăranii săraci, pe de altă parte, erau și...

We are about to see the biggest transfer of wealth in history, and we found that everyone was focused on the wrong thing. Many people wrongly assume the most important issue is money. While it...

History conspires to make us who we are.

If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History...

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it’s also written by the wealthy and the literate.

Up to this point, it was rare for the mad to be distinguished from the poor, the homeless, the indigent, beggars, vagabonds, petty criminals and others who were unable to fit into society or take...

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people...

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that...

When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going; men are more interested in where the woman has been.

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

Well, let’s see. There’s—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v....

The groundswell of outrage over the invasion of Iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of American ideals. The subtext of the dissent was: ‘This is not who we are.’ But not if...

Notwithstanding the extravagance of some of their characters, these nineteenth-century novelists describe a world in which inequality was to a certain extent necessary: if there had not been a sufficiently wealthy minority, no one would...

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

Probably not, but we can pretend.

It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it happened.

This may be the most dramatic, most complicated and most significant economic transformation in modern history.

She who leads with her heart is never forgotten.

America’s civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.