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...

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our...

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.

Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living. that’s the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn’t matter if it’s a hundred...

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

Archive material is a fabulous starting point – individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

For all those who say its a Man world. Respect Women Its their World we are just guest here

message of truth” found in all of us, that binds theology—holistic virtues combined with purpose is the foundation of spiritual evolution. The diversity among us all is not divided truth, but the opportunity for unity...

…that it is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Rising up, rising down! History shambles on! What are we left with? A few half-shattered Greek stelae; Trotsky’s eyeglasses; Gandhi’s native-spun cloth, Cortes’ pieces of solid gold (extorted from their original owner, Montezuma); a little...

The two came to differ on many, if not most, issues. But the man who would single-handedly defy Hitler in 1940 against all odds bears a striking resemblance to the man who organized the first...

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up...

are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.

History engineered if the facts couldn’t be generally accepted.

La historia la escribe quien esta en el poder.

Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will...

What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won’t even stand close to the blade. I’m...

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the...

When the past comes knocking, don’t answer. It has nothing new to tell you.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

HIt is surely certain – as certain as one can be about any historical events – that the fall of New World slavery could not have occurred if there had been no abolitionist movements. We...

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

WWPP (‘WODEA Witness Protection Programme’) ni Programu Maalumu ya Ushahidi ya Tume ya Dunia ya kuwakinga mashahidi wa kihalifu kwa kuwapa makazi mapya, majina mapya, kazi mpya, historia mpya ya maisha, na sura mpya, kuwakinga...

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.