In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead.

Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave...

The Present Celebrates Those Who Say “Yes”. History Exalts And Remembers Those Who Said “No

Pendekatan orang tentang agama yang dianutnya sudah semestinya berbeda dengan pendekatan orang yang berada di luar agama itu.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

The Question is actually the answer

Can’t you see there’s a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

This is a person who has a long history in Wisconsin including as a former legislator and as a member of the governor’s administration. The governor always picks the people who are best for the...

More than half of our history is lost, not because they were not documented, but they had no guardians and protectors.

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast betweenthe standards of the past and the standards of the present. Somefulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

Historians are great gossips at a high level.

The ‘Manifesto’ being our joint production, I consider myself bound to state that the fundamental proposition which forms its nucleus belongs to Marx. That proposition is: that in every historical epoch, the prevailing mode of...

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

Then again, given that human history appears to be defined by a succession of more or less corrupt ruling elites, and if we are to assume that such corruption (and its spread throughout society) is...

I don’t think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It’s instructive to imagine...

Learn from history or you’re doomed to repeat it.

In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel’s notion of the longue durée, the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance...

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

We do not ignore the suffering of the Jews throughout history. It is time to bring all this suffering to an end.

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to live the life of a child forever. For what is a man’s life, unless woven into the life of our ancestors by the...

[Alon Johnson] Later wrote that, “coming through a battered building near a well known and dangerous doorway. I heard something unfamiliar — the sound of excited voices somewhere in the distance. The significance of this...

Son, you can’t go around painting yourself black, you hear?” “Why not, Papa?” “Because they’ll take you away.” “Why?” “Because you shouldn’t want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone who is…not...

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from...

They were the good old days. Don’t give up hope in the bad newdays, which will become then good old days. We appreciate Kennedy because he was killed; Martin Luther King was a great man....

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the merely ordinary fall into much the same pattern, give or take an honorary...

I am very young. He’s unbelievable player. For me, he’s the best, for sure. One of the best in history and he’s the best player now, by far. If you look at the rankings, and...

Whoever won the war, would revise the history.

Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways...

I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a...

The history written, taught, and sworn to as ‘the unvarnished truth’ by the establishment—any establishment, left or right, conservative or liberal, capitalist or socialist or fascist—is generally revisionist, narrow in perspective, monolithic, and agenda-driven. In...

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

…Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.

As much as I want to be a part of the history of this tournament and a part of the history of the great game of golf, it’s not something I dwell on. I really...

Call no man happy until he is dead.

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope’s pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if...

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to...

[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the ‘school’ to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of...

Overriding all of them, however, was the memory of 1918, the belief that the Jews, wherever and whoever they might be, threatened to undermine the German war effort, by engaging in subversion, partisan activities, Communist...

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years’ War and the Opium Wars...

The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.

I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.

In 1546 a band of weevils were tried for damaging church vineyards in St Julien. Such trials were rife in the sixteenth century, and the distinguished French lawyer Bartholomew Chassenée rose to fame as an...