History isn’t like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be...

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

At last he was to feel that he had the town, as it were, in his pocket, and was ready for anything. Accordingly he sent a confidential messenger to Rome, to ask his father what...

Oh, don’t worry, I am perfectly aware of the fantasy involved here, but what we want is almost never exempt from the impossible. That barrier has very little meaning for me these days. Given what’s...

People kill very important people to change the season in their life.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Is it not late? A late time to be living? Are not our generations the crucial ones? For we have changed the world. Are not our heightened times the important ones? For we have nuclear...

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.

The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy...

is the hero of his own story. That goes double for fanatics. Some of the greatest horrors in history were perpetrated by people who insisted, all the way to damnation’s door, that they fought on...

I think about the Old Ones, that they have a past but no history. I think about the inevitability of death, and whether it’s not that very inevitability that inspires us to take photographs and...

For us, the Classic starts today and the rest is history.

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry–treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry–has been a smashing...

That happens to have been a very significant battle,” Davin reminded me, in a smug tone.

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.

A student of Syrian affairs soon becomes used to paradox. A comparatively small country, narrowly chauvinistic and jealous of its national sovereignty, Syria is nevertheless the repository, and has often been the origin, of oecumenical...

Always do what you’re afraid to do”-Robert F. Kennedy

Hooper was no romantic. He had not as a child ridden with Rupert’s horse or sat among the camp fires at Xanthus-side; at the age when my eyes were dry to all save poetry –...

Aku sering menghabiskan waktuku sebelum tidur untuk memikirkan masa depan, tapi dengan usia setua ini, pikiranku sering terbang ke masa lalu. Dan aku memikirkan semua yang telah kami capai. Dengan gembira aku melayangkan pikiran pada...

Revolusi memang memerlukan kepemimpinan. Tanpa kepemimpinan, yang terjadi adalah kepanikan dan ketakutan. Karena kami masih dalam tahap revolusi ekonomi, aku tidak mengijinkan kritik-kritik yang merusak kepemimpinanku, begitu juga aku tidak mengijinkan kemerdekaan pers yang sangat...

Yang lebih penting di dalam suatu peperangan dan revolusi adalah waktu yang tepat.

Kekejaman terburuk yang dapat menghancurkan nilai-nilai kemanusiaan adalah pengasingan. Dia dapat memutarbalikkan dan membelokkan kehidupan manusia.

Terpikir olehku, bila Sang Penyelamat dari Indonesia berniat membebaskan rakyatnya, haruslah ia dapat menyelamatkan dirinya sendiri lebih dulu.

The universe stood still and the universe continued on its path, travelling through endless time.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

It’s history in the making, but we still have one more game.

As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the rise and fall of civilization, so does Christ put us in intelligent relation...

Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.

In the end the war was Hitler’s war. It was not perhaps the war he wanted. But it was the war he was prepared to risk if he had to. Nothing could deter him…He was...

I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology...

troublous storms that tossThe private state, and render life unsweet.”These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men, are the pretexts.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don’t want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They...

You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or a slave. Whether it is to be progress or stagnation.As long as man...

The successes we have enjoyed have not been down to three people. It is also true that each history has an end.

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

A menudo se usa la historia como una serie de cuentos morales para aumentar la solidaridad de grupo o, cosa más defendible, según mi punto de vista, para explicar el desarrollo de instituciones importantes como...

History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought...

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

I think war is a crime. If you don’t believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother’s mother. Your father’s mother’s mother’s mother. I hardly knew her. I didn’t have any interest in knowing...

The Told shone brightly. They truly stood out among the Inhabitants for their life and love, and the power to rebrand words went with them. They employed every type of literary term to form new...

…Baltimore. It’s imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It’s not all marble steps and waitresses calling you ‘hon,’ you know. Racial strife in the sixties,...