Europeans would like to escape from their history, a “great” history written in letters of blood. But others, by the hundreds of millions, are taking it up for the first time, or coming back to...

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal...

Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the same level with the Andaman or the Fiji Islands. That a country which has been recognised in all...

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think...

People recognize it, and history has placed it among the group of influential records. I’m gratified it stuck to the wall.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define...

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian’s mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

To be successful in life, plan, implement, revise, update, and build on change.

Look at our history and what we’ve done,

As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS…

Why should each generation be brought up on the selective prejudices of the one before it? I believe that this is exactly the point of history. And not just reading or studying history but also...

The present state of the world is normal; it with the last (19th) century that with the abnormality.

Even among Sedlacek’s own small cell, his Viennese anti-Nazi club, it was not imagined that the pursuit of the Jews had grown quite so systematic. Not only was the story Schindler told him startling simply...

Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn’t get enough of them and arrayed them in decorative profusion on the backs and collars and sleeves...

Now she could smell what the jaguar could smell, odors deeper and richer than anything she had experienced before, layers of smell she could read like Fray Tomás had read the words in her father’s...

When the BC job came open I was interested. I knew the program and its history of coaches from both as a player and a coach. I thought I could leave my mark here and...

He is the most recognized figure in the history of this city and when visitors ask about him, I point to the center. We hope he has a long and continuing life and hopefully, one...

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History...

Like some translucen latterday Cassandra, the prophetess of doom, (Heila the Comptesse von Westarp, the former secretary of the Thule Gesellschaff) rose up from the bosom of the limp and slumbering medium (Dr. Nemirovitch-Dantchanko) to...

The biggest bull market in history still appears to be intact, … Although the market is up tenfold since 1982 and lots of wealth has been created, there are still buyers to be found on...

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.

The Bretton Woods saga unfurled at a unique crossroads in modern history. An ascendant anticolonial superpower, the United States, used its economic leverage over an insolvent allied imperial power, Great Britain, to set the terms...

History books are being re-written all the time

The proposed state non-game wildlife grants mark a real first in national conservation history, … Never before has Washington offered a dedicated source of federal funding to the states for them to tailor programs benefiting...

It really is an opportunity for a piece of The Plaza. It is New York history and world history, really.

For us, it was an opportunity to add a player without subtracting a player. Our history here, usually we’re trading a player to acquire a player.

It’s a story that fails as history, but that’s why it succeeds as scripture — because it’s elliptical, … The story has the ability to be perpetually now.

The first thing I encountered on entering the museum was the earliest steam engine built in England. As I walked on, marveling at each successive mechanical wonder, I realized that I was witnessing the history...

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the afternoon, and then—fire, earthquake, death! As if it...

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which – grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, “Let there be no compulsion in religion” (2:256) – is arguably the first mandate for...

You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of...

…neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop...

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in...

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the...

The conditions encountered so far have been rather reasonable. Past history tells us the Cape Horn leg is the toughest because it takes the fleet the furthest into the southern ocean.

Demokrasi Indonesia, yang banyak disalahpahami di luar negeri kami, didasarkan pada prinsip mufakat, bukan pada jumlah suara. Kami tidak lagi memakai sistem demokrasi Barat ini yang didasarkan atas suara terbanyak, dimana 51 persen suara berhak...

He’ll be remembered as a history maker. He won three state championships and set school records.

If history teaches us anything, it’s that governments are always right, and they always do what’s in the best interest of the people, even at the expense of their own political agenda. In every situation,...

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Slavery has been outlawed in most arab countries for years now but there are villages in jordan made up entirely of descendants of runaway Saudi slaves. Abdulrahman knows he might be free, but hes still...

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar...

Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Perhaps the death of us all is called for in this time of emotional desperation. War is a product of the mind; only with the death...

I didn’t do it in 1066. But I’m only not guilty because I wasn’t quite alive then. The ferocity of the Normans not named Norman is underestimated in history, and I fear neither woman nor...

There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner...

History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.