I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, “The Gods say…” They will believe if one says, “I had a Vision…” They will believe if one says, “It was told me on...

Kami sangat kehilangan si kecil. Tetapi sebaliknya kami tidak begitu lama tinggal diam saja, sebab itu tentu bukan perpisahan yang berat. Pasti banyak lagi yang menunggu kami dikemudian hari. Dalam setiap hidup tak dapat dihindari,...

In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false information, one absolute truth is the fact that Superman is Clark Kent. All the rest is always open to...

What you don’t know going in is that when you come out, you will be scarred for life. Whether you were in for a week, a month, or a year—even if you come home without...

Certainly it’s a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don’t seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out to be. Though clearly they were imperfect.””I don’t deny that they...

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.

Leo Strauss’s discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we...

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical...

I’ve always believed in that famous quote from Karl Marx, something like; ‘Men make history, but not under conditions of their own choosing.

In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has not promoted equality of condition. The Crusades and the English wars decimated the...

History makes my mouth water – and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision

If you look at the history of the school and what they’ve done in a short period of time, it’s quite amazing, … It’s a scary team.

It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change.

They should go down as the greatest team in history because of the parity of the league and with all the salary caps and stuff.

If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances...

History will not let us forget: it wears disguises, reintroduces itself to us, claims it is someone new and wonderful. But let us not forget.

Black history is American History.

The history doesn’t repeat itself, it’s just their methods repeats. 27.06.11

Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.

There can have been no doubt in Eleanor’s mind as to what was expected of her as a wife. In her day, women were supposed to be chaste both inside and outside marriage, virginity and...

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

Again, Syd had that feeling, the past as an echo, repeating itself as it faded. The poor had longed for Jubilee to save them from the powerful, and now the one-time patrons longed for the...

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her...

Surely, though, I must have stolen into the future and landed in an H.G. Wells-style world – a horrific, fantastic society in which people’s faces contained only eyes, millions of healthy young adults and children...

Hey you —All our fevered history won’t instill insight,won’t turn a body conscious,won’t make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothingto solve even as each moment is an answer.

The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see...

I have had my mother’s wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way...

Thus the word “inhuman”, in this book’s title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn’t.

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of...

I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I...

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics … would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

History does seem to repeat itself hence it’s mindboggling to still hear the ‘avoid all negative people’ speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding...

countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they’ve already been around into the distant future.

DNA has memory!

My parents didn’t grow up here or anything. They chose to live in this nowhere town. Why? Because it was named after Hannibal of Carthage. Their basic train of thought was this: Hannibal’s Rest? And...

I heard my teacher said “great people make history”. I am not concern about “great” or “people” or “history”. I am concerned about “make” and it keeps me asking the next question “how?”! They are...

Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday’s stories into our lives today

Film seharusnya menjadi alat untuk meningkatkan solidaritas antar bangsa di dunia, bukan untuk menghancurkannya. Inilah cara yang murah untuk menunjukkan keramahan kepada kami. Tanpa dollar. Sekadar membuat film yang menunjukkan Amerika menyukai kami. Ternyata di...

Dibanding dengan wilayah kepulauan kami, Irian Barat hanya selebar daun kelor, tetapi Irian Barat adalah sebagian dari tubuh kami. Apakah seseorang akan membiarkan salah satu anggota tubuhnya diamoutasi tanpa melakukan perlawanan? Apakah seseorang tidak akan...

Ketika aku melangkah ke mimbar, aku dibentengi oleh tubuh mereka yang membentuk tameng dari darah dan daging. Siapapun yang ingin mendekatiku, terlebih dulu harus menembus beberapa lapisan manusia.

Seorang pahlawan yang hanya mau menjalankan kebaikan tidak pernah kalah untuk selama-lamanya.

Nasionalisme tanpa keadilan sosial adalah nihilisme. Bagaimana suatu negeri yang miskin dan sangat buruk seperti negeri kami dapat menganut suatu aliran selain sosialisme?

Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms, mother of two kings? My guts are torn from me, my...

It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and...

It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of itRobert E. Lee