Tanpa punya pengalaman sedikitpun, Indonesia harus membangun mulai dari awal.

Kita tidak membenci orang Belanda. Kita hanya membenci pemerintah kolonial. Tetapi bila ada seseorang yang lapar atau menderita sakit, kita sendiri akan membagi makanan atau darah kita kepadanya untuk mengurangi penderitaannya. Politik adalah politik, tapi...

Whatever you do today, impacts your historicity.

Apakah engkau seorang pengekor atau pemimpin?””Aku seorang pemimpun.””Kalau begitu, buktikanlah.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books...

The problem, really, is that while humanity continues to experience huge leaps in technology, we experience no equivalent leaps in our ethical capacity. In the never-ending arms race between technology and ethics, technology always wins....

There is a unique bond between the land and the people in the Crescent City. Everyone here came from somewhere else, the muddy brown current of life prying them loose from their homeland and sweeping...

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

I think everybody called every [other] player in the league. That’s history right there. It hasn’t been done in a long time, and he did it.

THESE ARE THE REASONS, THEN, FOR WHICH A MAN CAN BE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE FATE OF HIS SOUL – AS LONG AS IN LIFE HE HAS…DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE PLEASURES OF AQUIRING KNOWLEDGE …WITH SELF...

Bahwa Islam membawa kepada persatuan, tetapi dalam pada itu menimbulkan keragaman, itu memang sudah menjadi satu hal yang hatus terjadi. Prinsip pemersatu dalam Islam ialah ajaran-ajaran dasar yang diwahyukan Tuhan dalam Al-Quran. Jumlah dari ayat-ayat...

You can’t be a full participant in our democracy if you don’t know our history.

History never repeats itself, historians do.

it’s not about what to think,it’s about how to think.

We’ve been able to do all those things in one of the most difficult markets in history, … If that’s what we are able to do in tough times think what will happen when the...

He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and...

Over time, over history, it has always been a market that people have turned to when there has been an element of uncertainty in other asset classes. It’s a question of diversification.

Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts — tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And...

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. ‘The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,’ she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. ‘Nonsense, Patricia,’ I tell her as I climb on...

Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their...

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted backdrop for thrilling scenes of adventure in private life. Nowadays, history moves...

I failed to convince President Nixon that morning and the rest, as they say, is history.

They could have taken the ‘history’ slant of it. They could have taken a ‘homemade’ slant of it. They just went for ‘strong,’ … You know, the mint’s so strong it has to be in...

Țăranii, în orice caz cei cu oarecare stare, nu aveau niciun motiv să se lase atrași de ideologia comunistă: doreau să-și rotunjească proprietățile, nicidecum să le piardă; țăranii săraci, pe de altă parte, erau și...

We are about to see the biggest transfer of wealth in history, and we found that everyone was focused on the wrong thing. Many people wrongly assume the most important issue is money. While it...

History conspires to make us who we are.

If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History...

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it’s also written by the wealthy and the literate.

Up to this point, it was rare for the mad to be distinguished from the poor, the homeless, the indigent, beggars, vagabonds, petty criminals and others who were unable to fit into society or take...

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people...

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that...

When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going; men are more interested in where the woman has been.

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

Well, let’s see. There’s—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v....

The groundswell of outrage over the invasion of Iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of American ideals. The subtext of the dissent was: ‘This is not who we are.’ But not if...

Notwithstanding the extravagance of some of their characters, these nineteenth-century novelists describe a world in which inequality was to a certain extent necessary: if there had not been a sufficiently wealthy minority, no one would...

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

Probably not, but we can pretend.

It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it happened.

This may be the most dramatic, most complicated and most significant economic transformation in modern history.

She who leads with her heart is never forgotten.

America’s civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Demikianlah kepercayaan rakyat! Darimana asal kepercayaan ini, saya tidak tahu dengan pasti.