There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient book should be read only by the professionals, and the amateur should content himself with modern books.

But then what is the alternative to trying to tell the truth about the Holocaust, the Famine, the Armenian genocide, the injustice of dispossession in the Americas and Australia? That everyone should be reduced to...

History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

The person who expects to understand history must submerge himself in it, must get rid of patriotism, as well as bitterness. And especially in studying a historic life that consists in insecurity must the historian...

I’m very happy to make history. I ‘m planning to do that again next time.

Whatever our official pieties, deep down we all believe in lives. The sternest formalists are the loudest gossips, and if you ask a cultural-studies maven who believes in nothing but collective forces and class determinisms...

I believe that they’re on the wrong side of history ? that the people of Iraq are moving away from them, including the Sunni community. They will ultimately be defeated. The question is not whether,...

It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.

Henry Ford is quoted as saying. “History is more or less bunk.” Now, if he never spoke those words, doesn’t that just prove he was right when he didn’t say them?

On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.

You always have to react somewhat judiciously to the statements that North Korea makes. They have a lengthy history of bravado to some of their statements.

I think what he will be remembered for most in history is the way he connected with regular people and brought the mystery and beauty of oceans into our personal lives,

Perdida ya toda esperanza de alcanzar una vida mejor en este mundo, la gente fue depositando cada vez más sus esperanzas en la vida del más allá, y la idea de obtener recompensas en el...

Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have...

In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God…If that spirit is life, then I found life…If that spirit is awe,...

History, lie of our lives, mire of our loins. Our sins, our souls. Hiss-tih-ree: the tip of the pen taking a trip of three steps (with one glide) down the chronicle to trap a slick,...

This is about history, it is about how our justice system responded to the worst terrorist attack on our soil.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

The thing people don’t understand about an army is its great, unpunctuated wastes of inaction: you have to scavenge for food, you are camped out somewhere with a rising water level because your mad capitaine...

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively...

Geschichte lebt nicht, wenn man ihr keine Heimat im Bewusstsein gibt; sie ist eine Last, die kein freier Mensch zu tragen gezwungen werden kann.

The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was...

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others . ‘ . ‘ . personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. Despite this, I was always touched by the fact that he was not bitter and fought for justice...

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

Aku akan memuji setiap hal yang baik, tak pandang ia datangnya sebagai seorang Komunis, Islam atau seorang Hopi Indian.

Satu bangsa yang berusaha mempertahankan kehidupannya harus menerima bantuan dari segala pihak, menerima segala apa yang bermanfaat dan membuang sisanya.

Memang sering pihak ketiga campur-tangan dalam menyelesaikan suatu konflik, tetapi bla mereka nyata-nyata melakukan pemboman terhadap kami, ini sudah lebih dari intervensi.

Karena kami dipimpin oleh seorang pemimpih lemah yang bersemangat tikus, kami tidak berani berjuang. Tetapi bila kami dipimpin oleh seorang pemimpin kuat yang bersemangat banteng, kami akan bertempur.

Kesalahannya hanyalah karena ia terlalu mencintai. Ia mencintai negerinya dan ia mencintai pemimpinnya.

How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious gifts in our lives. Once today is over, that’s it. Think about how...

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

So you mean to tell me you won’t fuck anyone you don’t share some kind of deep emotional connection with? What a sad, depressing, truly horrible life you must lead…

People don’t know I have a checkered past. I used to be a picnic table cloth.

Nations tend to see the other side’s war atrocities as systemic and indicative of their culture and their own atrocities as justified or the acts of stressed combatants. In my travels, I sense a smoldering...

Your childhood,” said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn’t chosen to retail at drink parties. Her words lulled him. The past, even...

You don’t realize your story is changing you until you look back.

He has had an invitation. We have a history of players with his credentials coming here and getting back (to the majors). That speaks for itself.

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

Perbedaan-perbedaan yang timbul dalam bidang keagamaan dan keragaman yang terdapat dalam lapangan kebudayaan, membuat Islam dalam pengalamannya berbeda di suatu negara dengan negara lain.

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That’s why people should read Shakespeare and...

We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read...

It is my joy to share with present and future generations these stories so full of humor, warmth, and adventure – and so rich in the rural culture of the early 1900’s.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

we’re looking for a planeet on the strength of a song. it’s crazy I know, but its the only chance we have to do something useful.” …Evan Wilson said gravely “I think you’re as crazy...

Vid ett tillfälle var det ett ungt vårdbiträde som utan att tänka sig för sträckte ut sin hand när hon inte hade skyddshandskarna på och tråkade hans tårar.

Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.

Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of what history and experience has taught, they are criticized for it. They are told that because they have...

Why write about the past? Well, there’s more of it.