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.

We’re at a point in our history where we need to make some tough decisions about how we want to live, work and play over the next several years or we are going … to...

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

In this bowl of stars we see the entire star formation history of Orion printed into the features of the nebula: arcs, blobs, pillars, and rings of dust that resemble cigar smoke. Each one tells...

Patriotism ruins history.

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.

History shapes the lives of all men, women and children … sometimes unraveling humanity into an undesired mess.

here’s a toast to Alan Turingborn in harsher, darker timeswho thought outside the containerand loved outside the linesand so the code-breaker was brokenand we’re sorryyes now the s-word has been spokenthe official conscience woken– very...

Nothing happens in history as an isolated event.

…most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in...

This gives Apple the biggest competitive advantage they’ve had in history from Microsoft.

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.

…we’re wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the “invaluable mental power we call judgment.

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

Never say more than is necessary.

I linger near Galileo’s telescopes, then round the corner and stand transfixed: I did not expect this- a dark, cool room full of globes of the night sky from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries....

A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

He is home now. He is free. History will record his worth as a leader. We here have long since measured his worth as a man — honest, compassionate, graceful, brave. He was the most...

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

Today is a new day. Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want....

History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.

To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple were both accused, and it emerged that they had decided to marry after...

Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We, the choicest flower of Britain’s manhood, were hidden away in her most secret...

I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road ended before an almost uninhabited swamp called the Choco Colombiano. Even today there...

Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun....

I’m not a historian, and I wouldn’t want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you’ll notice that the villains are always, always,...