Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

I have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But I did not know that war was nothing more than butchery, as savage...

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once...

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying...

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its ‘self-help’ section: ‘For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.

There was so much about our past that I still didn’t understand, and I wasn’t one to tell the future. I could only tell the way the world worked. History was a tangled thing, people...

Etu Brute!

It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.

He has proved himself one of the great Celtic managers, and his place in the history of the club is assured. He goes with our gratitude and best wishes.

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you’re still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities...

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven’t cleared Europe of the oldest science of all – the occult.

How do I define history? It’s just one fucking thing after another” – Rudge

Je pense, donc je suis…Descartes

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

We were meant to survive because of our minds’ ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

Your Highness, we are at a critical juncture in our nation’s history. The disruption of our oil supply was the final straw. It wrecked the economy. Japan is in ruins; millions are out of work....

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods’ conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror.”I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might...

Very often the test of one’s allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument...

At a time in our nation’s history when we are using the words ‘identity theft,’ this report reinforces the vital, trusted role the Postal Service plays in our daily lives.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.

The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents...

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they...

Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did...

It’s a special bit of British history that New Zealanders can connect with.

It is a cruel irony of history that he left at the moment he was most needed, the very moment he was expected to provide leadership in helping to settle the future status of Kosovo.

I am, apparently, of that rare breed that likes to write. The demands of a chapter pull me from bed in the morning, and regardless of how well I think I know the day’s road...

The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for...

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.

Right now, we are in a peak cycle. There’s tremendous energy out there, directed against the state. It’s not all focused, but it’s there, and it’s building. Maybe this will be sufficient to accomplish what...

And still, all specifics aside, it was a fascinating thought. When something can’t be known, when the particulars are lost forever, to look at the events that followed from it, that echoed it, and trace...

Bahkan seekor cacing pun kalau terluka, akan menggeliat-geliat dan melawan.

Orang kiri adalah mereka yang menghendaki perubahan kekuasaan kapitalis yang ada, orde imperialistis. Keinginan untuk menyebarkan paham keadilan sosial adalah kiri. Dia tak perlu komunistis. Seseorang yang memiliki idealisme seperti itu adalah seorang kiri. Bahkan...

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

It will really be the trial of the history of his regime over 35 years,

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

A country isn’t something concrete, composed of intertwined individuals interlocked together. That’s absurd. A country is abstract, with some silly frilly flag and pomp and a song—a national anthem. But dust off the glitter, replace...

…as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold – everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment – an eternity...

philosophy” has itself borne many fundamentally different meanings through the years, and from one school or movement to another.

Ancient philosophy was framed by prodigies,Aristotle, Plato and Socrates.And even though their thoughts were deemed the aristocratic voice,they also had a thing for little boys.Katherine the Great so it’s been said,needed large animals to be...

I cannot say much for this Monarch’s Sense–Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I suppose you know all about the Wars between him and the Duke of York who was...

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would...

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call “history.” Mythical stories, when you trace them back to their origin, often have a sacredness, a holy quality...