History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.

In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is the beginning of making things right.

We’re definitely into the history. Columbia’s come a long way, and we want to see it go further.

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third...

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

(The trip) was a total success. We were happy to host them and be a part of the history of the ship.

By journey’s end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling “the...

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one...

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories...

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Prophet Muhammad rises to start his mission for Allah.When wrapped in profound meditation and sad, he felt himself called by a voices from heaven to arise “O you (Muhammad) enveloped (in garments)! arise and warn!...

Aku kira dan bagiku itulah kesadaran sejarah. Sadar akan hidup dan kesia-siaan nilai.

History affects our future but it doesn’t determine it.

Bagaimanapun jalannya, sekali-kali jangan lelah untuk berusaha gigih membela semua yang baik.

Maybe your college professor taught that the legacy of colonialism explains Third World poverty. That’s nonsense as well. Canada was a colony. So were Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. In fact, the richest country...

I’m interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions. This slight-of-hand has been the cause of countless blood-shed and has been found...

History is story, too. You don’t encounter her directly; you’ve only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.

He will be remembered not only as a pioneer in his time, but as a dominant figure in world history,

For when I trace back the years I have liv’d, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer’d Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to inscribe my...

No wonder you were abducted so easily.

It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which that culture is conveyed, and with its necessary concomitant, a constant...

The personal inevitably trumps the political, and the erotic trumps all: We will remember that Cleopatra slept with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony long after we have forgotten what she accomplished in doing so, that...

The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away. It is simply there, never to change, and in its constancy it reflects the eternity of God. It presents to the young mind a...

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES

John had been a footman nearly all of his adult life. He knew decorum and appropriate behavior for his situation. But when he glanced from one twin to another, he nearly ruined his reputation and...

A moral cynicism was sapping the strength of our society, half-lies were not only condoned, but regarded as smart. Many had remained untouched by the welter of the holocaust of battle fields, mass bombings, prison...

And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the...

History shows that people are as changeable as rivers.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present – do we not?

They send in a fingerprint card or a misdemeanor citation with fingerprints on it. They’re put into a criminal history.

The school has been around for probably 50 years. There’s a lot of history here. Back in the 1980s, we had some dominating teams but we just couldn’t get to the final. We’ve been close,...

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History...

It’s sad that it has ended this way. This is one of the saddest days in Twins history. Only 45 years old. . . . That’s way too early.

Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his...

It’s like David against Goliath. Inter are superior. They have a team full of champions, a great history and a determination to win something after years without a trophy.

Remaking the world wasn’t always a stage show and a cheering crowd. Politics was just warfare by other means. The losers didn’t get to hold rallies.

For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly – in art and literature.

Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense… a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. – Bertrand Zobrist

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that ‘other’ cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to...

this Revolutionary ideology, epitomized by the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence, showed that the very idea of slavery is a fiction or fraud, since liberty and equality are fundamental rights that no one...

Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea.

The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity’s most powerful and a senseless desire – the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means...

President Bush is at the helm and he is making a great deal of history.