We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

As politicians weigh courses of action against their political agendas the death toll weighs heavy on the conscience of the world. The once vibrant Syrian streets are now haunted by the souls of the innocent...

I’ve heard it said before that those who don’t learn from the past are bound to repeat it, and I just don’t know what I think about that. I figure I don’t have too much...

Perhaps the Queen’s prayers, and those of Bernard, had been efficacious, or perhaps Louise had been more attentive in bed, for during 1145–the exact date is not recorded–she bore a daughter, who was named Marie...

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

The more I learn, the more I yearn.

…Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers… for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality… But...

Science has marched forward. But civilization’s values remain rooted in philosophies, religious traditions, and ethical frameworks devised many centuries ago. Even our economic system, capitalism, is half a millennium old. The first stock exchange opened...

Your past’s a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can’t hurt anyone.

The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It begins the moment men feel that religion is irrelevant to the...

backward,” stagnating, and unproductive. We now know that investment in slaves brought a considerable profit and that the Southern economy grew rapidly throughout the pre–Civil War decades. It is true, however, that the system depended...

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

In five hundred years’ time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not exist. There will be plenty of other causes. You and me and poor...

Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict—its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled...

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

Content is not mere facts, drummed into tender little minds under the relentless pounding of rote learning. Content–even the date of the Quebec Act, Confederation, or the Battle of Vimy Ridge, or the name of...

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It’s rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit...

It isn’t about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)

Soy una apasionada de los libros escritos por testigos oculares.

The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.

Amerika Serikat tidak bisa memandang rendah seorang pemimpin hanya karena dia orang Asia. Dan apa yang menjadi sebab orang kecil ini tidak mau lagi percaya kepada Amerika? Tidakkah karena rakyatnya merasa dihantam oleh intraversi dan...

Biarkan mereka melaporkan, Sukarno tidak hanya bicara dengan mulut, tapi juga bicara dengan meriam dan sudah siap perang.

Sebenarnya, rakyat Indonesia pada dasarnya bangsa yang lemah, patuh dan pendiam. Tetapi orang Belanda sendiri pernah mengatakan, di dalam jiwa orang Indonesia terdapat semangat seekor harimau. Dan apabila kami diterkam, kami sanggup melakukan tindakan-tindakan besar.

Aku bertanya kepada Saudara-Saudara semua: Siapakah yang dapat membelenggu suatu bangsa jikalau semangat bangsa itu sendiri tidak mau dibelenggu?

Bangsa Indonesia berbeda dengan bangsa lain di dunia. Sosialisme kami adalah sosialisme yang tidak memasukkan konsep materialisme yang ekstrim, karena bangsa Indonesia adalah bangsa yang takut kepada Tuhan dan mencintai Tuhan. Sosialisme kami adalah sosialisme...

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.

We have another positive local test on a 30-year-old man. He had a history of contact with sick chickens near his house. He died on April 26.

A miracle occurred, two hundred pure souls, condemned to death, did not weep. Not one of them ran away. None tried to hide. Like stricken swallows they clung to their teacher and mentor, to their...

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.””Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?””How else? Though not till I’m done reading.

La historia ha confirmado la triste verdad de que las masas irracionales siempre se han alineado detrás del poderoso y no del sabio.

Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing – say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico we shall find the thread of thought leads to the throne of the...

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

The historian, on the contrary, cannot experiment and can rarely observe. Instead, the historian has to collect his own evidence, knowing, all the while, that some of it is useless and much of it unreliable.”...

History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history–while it would not absolutely...

Al-Quran dalam pendapatnya mempunyai sifat supernatural. Kemukjizatannya terletak bukan hanya pada isi dan kebenaran psikologis dan mistisnya, tetapi juga pada cepatnya Islam meluas ke daerah-daerah di luar semenanjung Arabia.

No harm’s done to history by making it something someone would want to read.”(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the same today.

Only victors have stories to tell,we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered.

Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.

You grew up way too fast now there’s nothing to believe and reruns all become our history.

English law in the 15th and 16th centuries, despite being manipulated in favour of the king, did to some extent offer protection against arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. Death sentences could in theory only be imposed...

…first, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called “simultancous” distraction, the...

There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human...

That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you’ll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook,...

An old adage warns: If you don’t know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don’t know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth...

Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right.

All civilizations we know about have left a record of their history in material things. We know them through tablets or ruins dug up by archaeologists. But we know of the Jews in ancient times...