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.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism....

Despre comunism:„Tot ce am aflat după c teva mii de ani de istorie, este că cea mai bună dintre formele posibile ale conviețuirii noastre pe păm nt este democrația societăților de tip occidental; că această...

Burr had the dark and severe coloring of his Edwards ancestry, with black hair receding from the forehead and dark brown, almost black, eyes that suggested a cross between an eagle and a raven. Hamilton...

Kita umat Islam di Indonesia terikat pada adat-kebiasaan dan kebudayaan kita, dan ini mempunyai pengaruh pula pada Islam yang kita amalkan di tanah air kita ini.

Rumors are the children of truth.

It’s been a long journey. There’s so much history, so many people, different agendas.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back...

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Present has always been in comparison with past.

There are two kind of people in the world those who wish to be remembered, and those who are always remembered.

We’re going through probably the greatest transformation in American history of any city in this short period of time, … I just want to savor every moment of it.

When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of...

The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the fervor of faith. Under these circumstances, it is understandable that it...

Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what’s washed up on the banks of the river.

The statue of Justice, symbol of the law, as she holds aloft her balance scale, is blindfolded. Justice is blind to race, creed, color – and to personal eccentricity. If there were a comparable state...

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

We believe that more than 55 years of history cannot be effaced by sealing or demolishing structures.

I have only been the coach for a year, however, and I expect to turn this history around both in the playoffs and then at the finals in Germany.

Our parents’ generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.

I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and...

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

his history of anti-semitic and divisive, and intolerant comments.

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

Invisibility–there are things we can’t see now, that are there, that are embedded, that it really takes time in order to be able to see. There are many ghosts that are lurking around and lingering...

He’s Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn’t trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don’t know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn’t matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed...

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.

There’s no shame in fear. It’s only shame in letting fear rule you!

When history looks back,

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict...

I wouldn’t live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn’t want it next door. I’m not too happy it’s within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me....

Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! … How long the war...

Greensboro’s got too much history for the Tour to pull out, … You’re telling me you’re going to pull the plug on a tournament that’s been around for as long as this one has? That...

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange...

Orang mencoba membohongi kami, bahwa tidak kawin itu bukan hanya aib, melainkan dosa besar pula. Telah berulang kali itu dikatakan kepada kami. Aduhai! Dengan menghina sekali orang sering kali membicarakan perempuan yang membujang!

The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I’ve always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake the tube and see what comes out. Chronology irritates me. There...

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history

Wir lernen aus unserer eigenen Geschichte, wozu der Mensch fähig ist. Deshalb dürfen wir uns nicht einbilden, wir seien nun als Menschen anders und besser geworden. Es gibt keine endgültig errungene moralische Vollkommenheit – für...

Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears.

They have formed their own 4-H club – the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Let us beware that while they [Soviet rulers] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination over all the peoples of the earth, they are the...