And make no mistake about it, this attack was not just against ourselves or the Republic of Korea. This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among...

There’s no crying in the rank book.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

We were each of us trying; trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.

Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot – like an echo from history, still very alive.

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.

Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don’t allow you to live and Oxygen don’t let you die.

his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors…Now, with the help of the Roman historian Tacitus, I shall tell you Queen Boudicca’s story,...

The African continent has so many stories to tell, it’s about time they are told, by them – not us.

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.

When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.

precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan’s stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else – leave us alone already.

God was never created the economy.Men found it after banished from Eden.

Work, love, courage and hope,Make me good and help me cope!

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.

The present is the key to the past.

Just this past summer, I took online courses in introductory logic and law through civilization. Often the weight of history, with its facts heaped upon facts requiring complex chains of inference to sort through –...

Over the last six years, we have experienced the largest drop in price/earnings ratios in the history of the U.S. stock market, going back to 1871. 2006 has the potential to be a great year...

I know I’m biased because I’m his agent, but Ted Washington is probably the best nose tackle in the history of football. He’ll play hard every down. This is probably his last contract, but I...

Ideals are peaceful, history is violent.

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their...

It is of inestimable importance that the classical and biblical traditions linked slavery with original sin, punishment , the later abolition of slavery became tied with personal and collective freedom, with the redemption from sin,...

The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: … Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future...

Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels, but that they view him in a substantially different way —...

We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we’re making today.

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