We aren’t haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we’d be to them.

The past is not another country; it is another life. The texture of daily living is different now than in the past, more different the further back we look, until we find people whose experiences...

History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.

The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes...

No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as life which you should never forget to live and enjoy.

The aloo gobi is perhaps to North India what apple pie is to America. It is cheap and easy to make. Like most Indian dishes, you can make aloo gobi in as complex or rudimentary...

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to...

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce

All people are brave when their power is rising.

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

But some memories are more important than others,’ she says. ‘Because some memories belong to more than just one other person…Some memories tell us about who we are. They need to be kept safe so...

One day an intrepid sole will climb this mountain on its east side, reaching the summit and the passage that exist between the main peak and secondary peaks, by which he can descend to the...

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We’ve got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I’ve got to tell you the facts.

In other words, Hitler’s soul life was not mature enough at that moment to maintain an awareness of himself and his surroundings when this alien entity entered him. During the following six months during a...

Isso é mais uma coisa que aprendi com o tempo, sabe? O bem e o mal não existem! Quer dizer, existir até que existem, mas apenas no contexto de uma pergunta importante: bem ou mal...

Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?

Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.

One practice and the rest is history.

knowledge” of angels, and he devoted far more of his massive Summa Theologica to them than to physics.

Great charismatic leaders don’t just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say.

It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or ‘objectify’ them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse...

GM has a long history of poor performance and all of sudden they start doing well. Everyone is forced to ask, ‘How much further is it going to go? Is this a flash in the...

The Indians, keeping to themselves, laughed at your superior methods and lived from the land more abundantly and with less labor than you did… And when your own people started deserting in order to live...

We think it’s a unique asset with an interesting history and with a stable income in a unique location.

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

It frustrates and fascinates me that we’ll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we’ll just never know. What the first song sounded...

But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A...

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe’s urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of...

The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding charisma to which few were not prey. The embodied sovereign power, total power....

For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of Natural History. From an insider’s perspective, the well-known ethnologist Stan Freed engagingly introduces...

Your condition does not determine your life history. It’s your decision in that condition that tells more about your destiny. Decide not to see the available as the preferable!

The bulk of PDS members and important functionaries have not learnt anything from history, … And now they do not have the courage to say it was a wall of disgrace.

History,’ Mari muttered, as if she’d overheard his thoughts. ‘Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?’ ‘So hopefully we get smarter and don’t make the same mistakes again.

Aku masih memimpin satu revolusi, sekalipun hanya revolusi dari “tuntutan yang semakin meningkat”. Ini berarti hidup menurut hukum revolusi: hantam lawan-lawanmu. Membunuh atau dibunuh. Memenjarakan atau dipenjarakan.

Gotob royong adalah pembantingan tulang bersama, pemerasan keringat bersama, perjuangan bantu-membantu bersama. Amal semua buat kepentingan semua.

Telah terbukti dalam sejarah keagamaan dan politik, bahwa usaha untuk menindas seorang pemimpin, akan membuat namanya semakin hidup di hati rakyat.

Ini adalah bagian perjuangan yang kami lakukan, perjuangan tanpa harapan.

Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there....

History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them.

In the 40,000 year time scale we’re all the same people. We’re all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

The biggest thing I want these guys to understand is that last year is done and gone and it’s history. That is the critical factor. There is no sneaking up on people now. We gained...

The loss of that oral tradition and the breakdown of communication between generations had set my family adrift, floating aimlessly without history and all its accumulated experience to guide us. We need context, we need...

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

No fundo, os seres humanos não passam de veículos, ou locais de passagem, para os genes. De geração em geração, correm dentro de nós até nos esgotarem, como cavalos de corrida. Os genes não pensam...

Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship’s hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o’re the sea.” (Cutthroat’s Omen: A Crimson Dawn)