Aku tidak begitu memikirkan benda-benda duniawi seperti uang. Hanya orang yang tak pernah menghirup apinya nasionalisme dapat larut dalam hal-hal sepele seperti itu. Kemerdekaan adalah makanan yang membuat aku hidup. Ideologi, idealisme. Makanan dari jiwa....

Feodalisme adalah milik masa lalu yang sudah mati, bukan milik Indonesia di masa depan.

My hobbies include urinating in empty apple juice bottles and then pouring the contents into kitty litter and trying to get the clumps to form shapes of historical figures.

This is the pen that was first used to write down these words. This is history. This happened. Now, go write your own history. But use another pen, because this one’s not only super glued...

Live long enough and nothing is news. ‘The News’ is ‘the new things.’ That’s fine, until a hundred years go by and you realise there are no new things, only deep structures and cycles that...

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Having an affair with your good friend’s wife while he’s in an institution and your wife is in a hospital ranks somewhere between Benedict Arnold and the guy who invented Girls Gone Wild on the...

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.

history beats in longer periods than a man’s heart

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than...

You can’t be neutral on a moving train.

Islam adalah agama yang hidup, terus berkembang dan dapat memenuhi kebutuhan rohani dan intelektual jutaan umat manusia.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Ready yourselves!’ Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men were prepared.A great cry came from beyond the walls that were punctuated by musket blasts and Mullone readied himself...

Express yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment, Live the life.

The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be...

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don’t want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing...

History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person?...

Listen, she said, “cherubim have come to my planet before.””I know that. Where do you think I got my information?””What do you know about us?””I have heard that your host planet is shadowed, that it...

Legend has it that while drinking wine in a boat on the river, [8th century Chinese poet Li Po] tried to grab the moon’s reflection on the surface and tumbled in, which is probably the...

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays,...

Well, that’s history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren’t even there.

…Then a man turnedAnd said to me: “Although I love the past, the dark of it,The weight of it teaching us nothing, the loss of it, the allOf it asking for nothing, I will love...

Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it...

It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out...

History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Grandmother’s knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history.

History’s got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can’t be untied.

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King’s army and demanded that the Greeks...

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say,...

They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it’s actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims...

There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of...

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. … At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex...

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

But that’s what family is, isn’t it? It’s traditions and trinkets that only matter when we hold them up against the mirrors of our lives, lending them meaning, lending them weight, until they become heavy...

The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.

Many comparisons have been made with the markets of the 1950s and 1960s. If you go back in history you climb a wall of worry. The price action we are seeing today is actually normal...

The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Kami harus mencari semua bagian yang terang. Apabila tidak ada, maka yang gelap itu agak digosok. Itulah seninya agar dapat hidup dengan gembira, bukan?

History had its fascinations, but could be burdensome.