Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

Many had suspected that the political disasters of the past few years had a hidden cause. The bloodiness of the French mob rule was something unnatural, with a pitiless and inhuman progression that had never...

Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history!

History is an amazing presence–it is the place where vanished time gathers. While we are in the flow of time, it is difficult to glean its significance, and it is only in looking back that...

Dio quanto è bella” pensò l’uomo avvicinandosi alla giovane che aveva lasciato due mesi prima. Vedere quegli occhi, quei lunghi capelli corvini legati in una treccia come ricordava di averli visti quella prima sera insieme...

A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.

If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven’t had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it...

Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial.Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too – that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you...

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times...

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own.

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real...

Life & Deathenergy & Peaceif I stoped todayit was funEven the terrible pains that have burn me & scarred my soul it was worth it for having been allowed to walked where I’ve walked. Which...

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific...

Snouck could speak of the region of Aceh, on the nnorthern tip of Sumatra, as ‘that country… that old pirate-state’, and the American traveller Eliza Scidmore of ‘ the brave, liberty-loving Achinese’. Within a decade...

Okupācija ir nenormāla situācija. Tās sekas vēl gadu desmitiem plosa atbrīvotās valsts cilvēkus, un “pareizie” vaino “nepareizos” piedzīvotajās nelaimēs un pastrādātajos noziegumos. […] Latvija vienu pec otras pārdzīvoja trīs okupācijas, kuru kopējais ilgums – piecdesmit...

A lot of faculty, but no one from the history department. And no students. Not one.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

If England had not used the services of privateers and pirates during its long struggle with Spain, there is some likelihood that people today in North America would be speaking Spanish rather than English.

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as...

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

I have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But I did not know that war was nothing more than butchery, as savage...

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once...

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying...

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its ‘self-help’ section: ‘For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.

There was so much about our past that I still didn’t understand, and I wasn’t one to tell the future. I could only tell the way the world worked. History was a tangled thing, people...

Etu Brute!

It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.

He has proved himself one of the great Celtic managers, and his place in the history of the club is assured. He goes with our gratitude and best wishes.

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you’re still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities...

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven’t cleared Europe of the oldest science of all – the occult.

How do I define history? It’s just one fucking thing after another” – Rudge

Je pense, donc je suis…Descartes

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

We were meant to survive because of our minds’ ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

It’s the same group of guys, mind you, that was the worst team in Penn State history.

We’re taking a valuable property with a well-regarded history on Kauai and redeveloping its purpose and potential, … The result will be a first-class resort of beauty and function offering an exceptional experience for vacationers...

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.

The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents...