Sudah merupakan suratan nasib Sukarno, untuk menyusun pergerakan yang membuat dia masuk penjara, lalu dibuang, tapi kemudian dia akan membebaskan kita semua. Sukarno bukan lagi milik orangtuanya. Karno sudah menjadi milik rakyat Indonesia. Kami harus...

Seseorang yang menjadi gurumu harus dihormati, bahkan lebih daripada orang tuamu sendiri.

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time.

There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.

…early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

Write about what you know,” isn’t limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. Read a lot of history and it becomes part of your...

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,The mothlike worlds flit ’round the guttering sun.(“Ephemera”)

There is no question that the Republicans mounted an attack on John Murtha. They are trying to rewrite history.

Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell...

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance...

Tuhan ingin menyampaikan risalah kepada manusia. Untuk itu Tuhan mengirim Rasul-rasul dan Nabi Muhammad adalah salah satu dari Rasul-rasul itu. Risalah yang ingin disampaikan Tuhan ialah norma-norma akhlak dan syariat.

It was probably the greatest singular human endeavor, certainly in modern times, maybe in the history of all mankind.

What do we do if we come across trouble, sir?’ Cahill asked, slapping at a fly. ‘As much as I enjoy giving the rebel turds a walloping, it should be down to the Militia to...

Change the world so that nothing else is changed.

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie […] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]

It’s interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug...

No moment is ever isolatedWith history elsewhere, drilling its stitches.

Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.

History deals with situations and figures not imaginary but real. It demands therefore a combination of qualities unnecessary to the poet or writer of romance – glacial judgment coupled with fervent sympathy. The poet may...

In many ways the recent history of the Ukraine can be seen as an intensified version of the history of our era. Most of the political issues are familiar to us. Most of the methods...

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us,...

Our history here in Sackets Harbor, our whole renaissance that’s taken place over the last 25-30 years, is based on the fact that the community has come to understand how important it’s history is, and...

I think it’s important for people to know the history of items, where they came from and how they came to be. I’ve found a niche that has opened up a new world and helped...

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

And once upon a time I wondered: Is writing epic fantasy not somehow a betrayal? Did I not somehow do a disservice to my own reality by paying so much attention to the power fantasies...

A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers of the nation of Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout. The founders were aristocrats, and they wished to...

This is a way to keep history alive.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country…we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying...

To be ignorant of history is to remain always a child.

At Bow Street Magistrates’ Court the essential facts were established. The man’s name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of the south London parish of Camberwell. He had a wife and a young...

If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you,’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

In late 1949, at two and a half years old, I arrived in Jamaica for the first time. I had crossed the Atlantic by air from England. My Jamaican father was studying in London, my...

History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold all the elements of the original flower, they cannot show us how it...

They never let you live it down. One little mistake!”- Nero

Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been bought at high price because someone wants to have it near...

A ruling government can’t afford to publish history in a version which lessens its’ chance for reelection.

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn’t it time you turned the page?

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which always veils the truth for a longer or shorter...

History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of fortunes and cultures. It was the litany of loss, attended by...

The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid...

Start to focus on things that unite the races of people instead of things that divide us, and you will have already won the battle, and are a building block to the solution.

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America–we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.

There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into sharp...

These can be interesting properties. They have a history and there are some good values. And there can be some very hot properties in terms of location.

The word ‘Indonesia’ was first manufactured in 1850 in the form ‘Indu-nesians’ by the English traveler and social observer George Samuel Windsor Earl. He was searching for an ethnographic term to describe ‘that branch of...

And how would he learn his history now? Imagine growing up in a world where only generals and geniuses, empires and companies, had histories, not your own town or grandfather, house or Samantha—none of the...