Ketika aku masuk penjara, aku akan menghadapinya dengan tabah. Kalau memang nasibku harus menghadapi penderitaan, biarkanlah. Bukankah lebih baik Sukarno menderita untuk sementara daripada Indonesia menderita untuk selama-lamanya?

Banyak orang yang berkaki telanjang, tetapi mereka bukan orang yang revolusioner. Banyak orang berpangkat tinggi memakai sarung, tapi mereka bekerja sepenuh hati untuk penjajah. Jadi yang menandakan seseorang itu revolusioner adalah perjuangan yang dilakukannya. Kita...

You’re stepping into a school with a lot of history, tradition and now publicity. It’s going to take a special person to step into that job and handle the unique pressure that comes with it.

If you believe the Bible is true, you ought to know that demons are real. The Bible is filled with references of evil and demons, and Christ repeatedly cast out demons, so I believe the...

For the first time in the history of Lebanon, the Lebanese feel that they have the power to decide their fate,

History was once the future, the future will create history.

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power – all of them with governesses like her.

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.

One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years...

Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its...

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

Hukum Islam tidak mempunyai dasar ke-Islam-an (apalagi dasar Qur’an). Hukum Islam adalah hukum Rumawi-Barat, Bizantium, Parsi dan lain-lain yang dipadu, tetapi tidak pernah secara sempurna dengan suatu sistim persyaratan-persyaratan moral yang di “wahyu” kan. Ia...

The Hall of Fame’s collections are rich and diverse, given baseball’s history and role in helping to shape and define American culture, … Having the Jack Kerouac bobble-head in our collection is important, given he’s...

But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social hierarchy. Women kept busy with numerous domestic responsibilities while their male counterparts’ sole...

In fact, poetry has always been like archives that peoples have continually used to serve their feelings, thoughts, national identities and cultures, and it has served as a factor uniting different historical periods. Those who...

What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

One of them confessed to Paul that his tribe had heard stories about the fiercely cannibalistic ways of white men. Paul’s first instinct was to laugh him off as a simpleminded fool. But the legend...

We are shocked by and express our strong indignation over the Japanese foreign minister’s remark of overtly glorifying invasion history.

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man who kills the greatest number of his fellow-creatures.

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.

I am constantly reminded that we are a products of the choices we make

We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone.

It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I’d been there before. I don’t know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I...

Some people are agents from birth, Monsignors — he told them — appointed to the work by the period of history, the place, and their own natural dispositions. In their cases, it was simply a...

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States entered into World War II to protect our way of life and to help liberate those who had fallen under the Axis occupation. The country rallied...

A daughter, a wife, a grandson,’ You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly...

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of “the mad woman of the house.” And universal history is the gigantic and thousand-year effort to go on putting order...

There is some nice history in here. You can see how they celebrated 100 years ago.

Sejarah bukanlah apa yang terjadi. Sejarah hanyalah apa yang dituturkan sejarawan kepada kita.

When they turn the pages of history,when these days have passed long ago–will they read of us with sadnessfor the seeds that we let grow?

One of the most momentous, yet all but invisible, psychological changes in human history has been the intensification of a sense of insecurity and alienation from the world around us that arose when we became...

History will not determine this game.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

I remembered the old doctor, – “It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.” I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

It’s been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don’t learn, or can’t remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

It is undoubtedly true that religion is often socially conservative. By binding a people together under a shared God, a common cosmology and a common morality, religion creates order and stability and its rituals create...

The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

The power of uncovering India’s biggest concealment is in your hands.

Those who don’t know their history are defenseless against those determined to repeat it.

We kept gazing into each other’s eyes, rest was history, we kept talking in body language.

still” possible is by no means philosophical. It is not the beginning of knowledge, unless it would be the knowledge that the conception of history on which it rests is untenable.

The massacre is a black page in Ukrainian history as much as the mass famine,

Saya malu sekali memikirkan kepentingan pribadi. saya berpikir-pikir dan mengelamun tentang keadaan saya sendiri dan di luar, di sekekliling saya demikian banyaknya orang yang hidup menderita dan sengsara. Seolah-olah udara tiba-tiba bergetar disebabkan oleh suara...

for that men have been good does not suffice for them to continue being good, unless one cares about it to the end.