We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

I began with the desire to speak with the dead.

Of one thing I am certain: No single people, tradition, religion, governmental form, ethical program, moral code, or civilization has had sufficient wisdom and goodness to set the pattern and govern he world in the...

Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

Any big hotels have got scandals,” he said. “Just like every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go. Sometimes one of em will pop off in his room, heart attack...

Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is another. History can be many things, depending on how we read...

It is always a fashion to advise disputants to sit round a table and solve disputes by dialogue and discussion, and not to resort to violent confrontation and wars. Whether in national disputes or in...

The ‘healthy’ sign, for Barthes, is one which draws attention to its own arbitrariness—which does not try to palm itself off as ‘natural’ but which, in the very moment of conveying a meaning, communicates something...

When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.

God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.

We wanted people to gain an understanding of why history is important. Those nine minutes put it in context in a powerful, visual way.

God has given every man an opportunity and a chance to re-write his or her story; it is up to you to use a blunt pen or a ball point . I have chosen a...

We all know Katrina is one of the greatest human tragedies in the nation’s history – but it could also be the greatest cultural catastrophe America has ever experienced. Rebuilding is essential, but it must...

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

It appeared clear to me – partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks – that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve...

I am not a scholar of the past, but I am a lover of the past.

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels

Shakespeare ‘never owned a book,’ a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know nothing about his incidental possessions....

Sing it again!” And the women would sing again: Measles knocks at the door. Smallpox asks, Who’s there? And Scarlet Fever replies: All three of us are here!

The dangers of the sea should always take precedenceover the violence of the enemy’Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday – because of a doctor’s arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a consult, his neglect to get a full and thorough history. Arrogance! We are...

All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a...

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one’s inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

I see a cathedral, for instance, one that’s stood for centuries and I marvel and I wonder… How many people passed through the doors? What did they pray for? How many wars did they wish...

The White House would like to defy history this year.

I’m a student of conservation history and what I see are cycles, … The trend over time has been a broader level of conservation and concern. But there are peaks and valleys. We had tremendous...

It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself” (p. 5)

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

…I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me. I never felt that more than with this...

You scour these Chinatowns of the mind, translating themlike sutras Xuan Zhang fetched from India, testing waysreturn might be possible against these homesick inventions, trace the traveller’s alien steps across borders, and in between discover...

Ukanda wa Gaza ni jimbo lenye miji minne na kambi mbalimbali za wakimbizi za Umoja wa Mataifa – lenye urefu wa kati ya kilometa 41 au maili 25 na lenye upana wa kati ya kilometa...

The man who did the shooting was a civilian, Peter Kakhovsky, a gifted intellectual of extreme purity of motive in whom the conviction of the necessity of regicide burned with a gem-like flame. Determined to...

History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons...

Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God…. On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi on those who affirmed the existence of God and Holyoake regarded...

It can be very seductive to tell our story to others who will listen because, lets face it, who doesn’t love to ‘commiserate’ (in this context, meaning to share their misery) with other likeminded people....

Calf-deep in the soothing water I indulge myself in the wishful vision. I am not unaware of what such daydreams signify, dreams of becoming an unthinking savage, of taking the cold road back to the...

His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.{Gibbs’s obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius}

History has proven that when the people of Israel unite under a serious and responsible leadership, we know how to overcome all challenges and overcome all obstacles.

Wiesenthal, like few others … personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. Despite this, he was not bitter and fought for justice admirably.

Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates so that my return was akin to turning the leaves of...

Bertahun-tahun lamanya aku sangat ingin menjadi sahabat Amerika, tetapi mereka tak menerimaku. Amerika berulang-ulang salah mengartikan bantuan asing dengan persahabatan. Amerika, aku memerlukan pengertianmu. Aku berteriak-teriak untuk itu. Dan bukan karena aku ingin sesuatu darimu....

Komunisme dapat diberantas dengan pikiran sehat, bukan dengan sikap histeris.

Tetapi disetiap negeri pada suatu waktu ada saja pengacau yang mencoba mengalihkan kekuasaan pemerintah ke dalam tangannya sendiri.

Nah, ketahuilah mengenai hal ini. Aku akan melakukan kerjasama sekalipun dengan setan yang terkutuk, jika hal itu membantu kemerdekaan negeriku.

Kaum imperialis, perhatikan! Apabila dalam waktu yang tidak lama lagi Perang Pasifik menggeledek dan menyambar-nyambar membelah angkasa, apabila dalam waktu yang tidak lama lagi Samudera Pasifik menjadi merah oleh darah dan bumi disekitarnya bergetar oleh...

We have been taught, both inside the classroom and outside of it, that there exists an entity called the West, and that one can think of this West as a society and civilization independent of...

You can believe history books when they tell you when wars were fought. You just can’t trust them as to why.