What is realised in my history is not the past definitive of what it was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the...

History has rewritten itself so many times I’m not really sure how it was to begin with — it’s a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it’s been repainted...

‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century...

Next time!” In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

Now when we get to Watkins Glen, that’s going to be the slowest lap in history. I’m going to tell the team not to expect me to set a flyer on that first one.

[It] has been said that the difference between Greek and Israelite religion was that the Greeks worshiped the ‘holiness of beauty’ whereas the Jews worshiped ‘the beauty of holiness.

Seandainya Amerika dapat mengerti perasaan kami dan ketidaknyaman kami, dia akan menyadari bahwa lautan dollar takkan dapat merebut hati kami.

Sampai hari kematianku, aku tetap seorang demokrat. Abdi dari rakyatku. Pelaksana dari keinginan mereka. Aku tidak memaksakan pimpinan kepada rakyat. Aku memberikan saran dan menunggu reaksi.

Ya. Sudah tiba waktunya bagiku untuk dibunuh! Jika aku yang memimpin pemberontakanmu ini dan gagal, kepalaku akan dipenggal. Engkaupun juga … begitupun yang lain-lain. Mereka mati ada gantinya, pemimpin tidak. Kalau aku mati, menurutmu siapa...

Menghukum Sukarno berarti menghukum seluruh pergerakan.

Suatu kehidupan yang terbagi atas kelas-kelas, kasta-kasta, dan golongan yang-puny dan yang-tidak-punya akan menghasilkan perbudakan.

For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them....

(…) słowo “etnopatologia” stało się jego ulubionym terminem – pod koniec życia uzywał go często i z wyraźną przyjemnością. Termin też oznaczał dla niego pewne etniczne zakrzywienia, wzajemne przenikanie i wpływy – krótko mówiąc pewną...

I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.

Only one president in this book was a supervillain. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Chester A. Arthur, the Lex Luthor of the American Presidency.

The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the...

History is still happening

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?””Yes, I am fond of history.””I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that...

My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of...

Kalau Islam berarti menyerahkan diri, maka kita semua hidup dan mati dalam Islam – Goethe

The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame.

Education continued to come under particularly strong fire…: If women learned how to manage in the world as well as men, if they learned about history and politics and studied for a profession, of course...

El error más grave que han cometido los parias, a lo largo de la historia, ha sido confiar en los hijos de papá.

The expression ‘there is nothing like the good old days’ does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.

I’m in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems...

We are shocked by, and express our strong indignation over, the Japanese foreign minister’s remark of overtly glorifying invasion history.

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

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

…history is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

Al escribir “historia” me refiero a la general o universal. No hay otra: lo que se llama “historia patria” es espejo del hombre -y entonces es también universal- o es una anécdota de sobremesa.

I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit...

…for years the first of May was the day all leases expired, and on that day mass migrations would take place, with families lugging eiderdowns and ancestral portraits through the streets, as if in parody...

History was always buried deep, even when you know where to look. And it was hard to excavate it without damaging it. Brushes and cotton swabs, not chisels and pickaxes. Slow work. You had to...

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

In political affairs illusions are usually the product of a failure to appreciate change; but such failure-usually a necessary and perhaps salutary part of human affairs-becomes, when the change is very fast, not a stabilizing...

History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws;...

History isn’t the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It’s more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

Lyell and Poulett Scrope, in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton; and the former, aided by a marvellous power of clear exposition, placed upon an irrefragable basis the truth that...

He who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it.

One day, we will sit together and remember how we changed things. We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will...

History is written by the winners.

For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.

We have active and retired members who participated in the largest rescue in this nation’s history, and they want that site respected for what it is,

For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.