Seseorang tidak akan secara sukarela mempertahankan negerinya, kecuali jika dia seorang patriot yang penuh semangat. Perasaan kebencian terhadap sekutu yang anda akan tanamkan harus diperkuatvdengan perasaan cinta kepada tanah air yang sifatnya positif sebagaimana yang...

Tapi ingat Saudara-Saudara, tidak ada pengorbanan yang sia-sia.

By turning names into things we create false models of reality. By endowing nations, societies or cultures, with the qualities of internally homogeneous and externally distinctive bounded objects, we create a model of the world...

I am writing history, and I can’t be there.

Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?

Last night I snuck an orchestra into the elevator at my apartment. We made elevator music history until Marvin got his oboe caught in the door and Mrs. Hoffstead started singing “Yes We Have No...

For Blake, the news was as a storm that tore him apart. How dare an enemy soldier hurt his father, how could an enemy soldier kill his father. This just could not have happened. He...

Where I’m from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren’t true… we call it history.

This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: ‘At the time, no one knew what was coming.

New political systems and philosophies were imported into the Near East under the general term democracy and grafted artificially into a society which was feudal in nature and theocratic in spirit. The results were not...

Peradaban Barat di bawahnya berkumpul kebudayaan Barat berlainan dari berbagai bangsa Eropa. Peradaban Islam menyatukan beraneka ragam kebudayaan untuk Islam yang terdiri atas berbagai bangsa Timur.

One might also say that history is not about the past. If you think about it, no one ever lived in the past. Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, and their contemporaries didn’t walk about saying, “Isn’t...

That’s what I believe. I believe that universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed....

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not...

History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn’t it?

But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by our successors; the seeds of error and of ruin contained even in what...

History is conjecture raised to the level of an art.

Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so – to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of one event and fail to mention some other; such a critique is proper...

You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I have destroyed a few things. The builder of your Cathedral is forgotten even...

The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.

Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you’re going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

It’s great to be part of history. We wrote it and now we are part of history. We played our hearts out. My team stepped up while I was on the bench, which I knew...

The curtains were not yet drawn and with the moonlight spreading across the room, I could see clearly. I undressed and slipped a soft cotton gown over my naked body. I pulled the blanket off...

I was missing lectures leading up to an essay test, so I went downstairs & got my textbook & pretended to study, with Animal Planet playing in the background. Everyone we learned about was either...

Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen it as an aristocratic fad: Mesmer (by this stage long gone to Germany and Switzerland) had made a fortune from...

Citizens of South Dakota should be proud of their courageous legislators for making history by being the first state to create a law that bans all surgical abortions without exception. American Life League salutes these...

Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton’s good luck to come at...

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

But technology is simply the making of things and the making of things can’t by its own nature be ugly or there would be no possibility for beauty in the arts, which also include the...

Amelia nodded her head, “That makes perfect sense.””No is doesn’t,” jeered Otto.”Yes, it does,” sighed Amelia. “Don’t you ever remember anything important?””Of course, I remember how many Star Trek seasons there were and when the...

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks and three of whites; and in one of the houses of the whites...

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it,

She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was for Darrow and for her brother. The possibility of time going...

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

History is written by the victors.

Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.

Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that which we know, can we surmise the elements of that which...

Rileggendo quelle poche frasi come sotto ipnosi, tardai ad accorgermi che la mia compagna virtuale aveva proiettato in un angolo del parabrezza la propria icona, cercando di attirare la mia attenzione in maniera il più...

Setiap orang tahu, bahwa pada umumnya gadis Jawa tidak diberitahu mengenai rencana perkawinan yang dibuat para pelindungnya untuknya. Dalam daerah Pasundan boleh jadi betul, bahwa anak perempuan dan anak muda yang bertunangan bisa saling mengenal,...

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind’s history must be scored bloody with heartbreak....

I have seen nothing and nothing but death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers…their ancestors. It is true what they say, history does repeat itself,...