The history written, taught, and sworn to as ‘the unvarnished truth’ by the establishment—any establishment, left or right, conservative or liberal, capitalist or socialist or fascist—is generally revisionist, narrow in perspective, monolithic, and agenda-driven. In...

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

…Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.

As much as I want to be a part of the history of this tournament and a part of the history of the great game of golf, it’s not something I dwell on. I really...

Call no man happy until he is dead.

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope’s pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if...

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to...

[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the ‘school’ to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of...

Overriding all of them, however, was the memory of 1918, the belief that the Jews, wherever and whoever they might be, threatened to undermine the German war effort, by engaging in subversion, partisan activities, Communist...

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years’ War and the Opium Wars...

The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.

I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.

In 1546 a band of weevils were tried for damaging church vineyards in St Julien. Such trials were rife in the sixteenth century, and the distinguished French lawyer Bartholomew Chassenée rose to fame as an...

Love is the reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror…

If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy, war, law, religious or political liberty, or the rights of men, women and...

The future is the past returning through another gate.

Anything the Austrians could do, the Prussians could do better.

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.

He tans into burning while the opening fanfare to “Peaches en Regalia” flows over him, the bugle call for a hippie army that marched at the peak of the American parabola, that moment when physics...

I mean, I don’t know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since Gone With the Wind I’ve had these fantasies about those generals, those gorgeous young Southern...

Mark Twain once said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

History isn’t like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be...

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

At last he was to feel that he had the town, as it were, in his pocket, and was ready for anything. Accordingly he sent a confidential messenger to Rome, to ask his father what...

Oh, don’t worry, I am perfectly aware of the fantasy involved here, but what we want is almost never exempt from the impossible. That barrier has very little meaning for me these days. Given what’s...

People kill very important people to change the season in their life.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Is it not late? A late time to be living? Are not our generations the crucial ones? For we have changed the world. Are not our heightened times the important ones? For we have nuclear...

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.

The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy...

is the hero of his own story. That goes double for fanatics. Some of the greatest horrors in history were perpetrated by people who insisted, all the way to damnation’s door, that they fought on...

I think about the Old Ones, that they have a past but no history. I think about the inevitability of death, and whether it’s not that very inevitability that inspires us to take photographs and...

For us, the Classic starts today and the rest is history.

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry–treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry–has been a smashing...

That happens to have been a very significant battle,” Davin reminded me, in a smug tone.

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.

A student of Syrian affairs soon becomes used to paradox. A comparatively small country, narrowly chauvinistic and jealous of its national sovereignty, Syria is nevertheless the repository, and has often been the origin, of oecumenical...

Always do what you’re afraid to do”-Robert F. Kennedy

Hooper was no romantic. He had not as a child ridden with Rupert’s horse or sat among the camp fires at Xanthus-side; at the age when my eyes were dry to all save poetry –...

Aku sering menghabiskan waktuku sebelum tidur untuk memikirkan masa depan, tapi dengan usia setua ini, pikiranku sering terbang ke masa lalu. Dan aku memikirkan semua yang telah kami capai. Dengan gembira aku melayangkan pikiran pada...

Revolusi memang memerlukan kepemimpinan. Tanpa kepemimpinan, yang terjadi adalah kepanikan dan ketakutan. Karena kami masih dalam tahap revolusi ekonomi, aku tidak mengijinkan kritik-kritik yang merusak kepemimpinanku, begitu juga aku tidak mengijinkan kemerdekaan pers yang sangat...

Yang lebih penting di dalam suatu peperangan dan revolusi adalah waktu yang tepat.