We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

We’d love to get more people here so we can share this important piece of history.

He gets away with it because he’s strong.”This is the story of mankind.”I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.”Yes. But then I read the newspaper.

Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.

E’stata reale prima di tutti noi. Siamo solo nati ottocento anni troppo tardi per poterla incontrare.

The subject of British abolitionism has long been controversial, complex, and even baffling. It also raises the issue of moral progress in history – whether groups of reformers and even nations can succeed in eliminating...

Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana kwa ndiyo nyingi – waliojitolea vitu vingi katika maisha yao kunifikisha hapa nilipo...

Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history – however dryly it is done and however sincere the desire for objectivity – remains literature. History’s...

The reality is that we have a history with Gore and have worked with him on many issues. There are people in the Bush camp who don’t seem to grasp tech issues, and they have...

Given the prolonged work stoppage and the league’s TV ratings history, no financial model even remotely supports the contract terms offered.

Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.

One of the questions I have been asked many times since this story broke is this: Now that the facts are out there, what can we do? My answer, depressing and cynical as it may...

HISTORIA RADICALMENTE CONCENTRADA DE LA ERA POSTINDUSTRIALCuando fueron presentados, él hizo un comentario ingenioso porque quería caer bien. Ella soltó una risotada estrepitosa porque quería caer bien. Luego los dos cogieron sus coches y se...

The Doctrine is the Ecstasy

Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

Bagaimanapun, aku bahkan akan merasa kurang bahagia bila tidak memenuhi panggilan jiwaku.

Indonesia harus menguasai kesadaran diri dan rasa rendah diri. Ia membutuhkan rasa percaya diri. Itulah yang harus kuberikan kepada rakyatku sebelum aku meninggalkan mereka. Saat ini Sukarno lah yang menjadi faktor pemersatu di Indonesia. Setelah...

Kalau rakyat bersama denganmu, tidak mungkin musuh akan memperoleh kemenangan.

Ada masa-masa dimana kesulitanmu berguna dan diperlukan.

Bagi kami kemiskinan bukanlah sesuatu yang perlu membuat malu. Kami semua orang yang berpikiran idealis.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn by love. What a miracle she was, what a truly exquisite paragon of...

Fiecare trăim istoria după mintea noastră, deci o percepem diferit.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

divinity of arithmetic,” through showing that even the methods, which we now take most for granted, were not given to us from on high, but were actually the result of centuries of scientific efforts on...

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.

Kebudayaan mempunyai sifat-sifat khusus, nasional, sederhana, dan timbul dengan sendirinya – Zia ‘Gokalp (1875-1924)

Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs of one’s society can lead to a sense of powerlessness. In...

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can’t look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

Even though we all know something,There is a lot more to it.

They would never forget the war. The world wouldn’t let them, and neither would history.

Is it possible that he can come back? Sure. There have been some tremendous and significant rebounds in American history and this would be one of them.

It’s not the first time in the history of OPEC that we’ve had problems with cutbacks, and when the price goes up, then the cheating starts.

Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homohabili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we arethe only surviving species.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school

Historians are wont to name technological advances as the great milestones of culture, among them the development of the plow, the discovery of smelting and metalworking, the invention of the clock, printing press, steam power,...

Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn’t flat or linear....

The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the bloody massacre in Bangladesh caused Allende to be forgotten, the din of war in the Sinai Desert drowned out...

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that we, the now, critically and categorically know better than they, the...

We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our...

People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history.

We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That’s what it is to be alive. It’s pretty dense kids who haven’t figured that out by the time they’re ten…. Most kids can’t afford to...

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.