Left to themselves, humans have always managed their own affairs creatively and well. Indeed, for most of human evolution and history people have lived peaceful, co-operative lives without rulers, leaders, politicians, soldiers, policemen and taxmen.

(…) Sir Boris had fought and killed the Paynim; Sir Gawain, the Turk; Sir Miles, the Pole; Sir Andrew, the Frank; Sir Richard, the Austrian; Sir Jordan, the Frenchman; and Sir Herbert, the Spaniard. But...

The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to have an opinion. Yet the kind of economics covered in the...

Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as...

As we celebrate Black History Month, it is especially troubling that President Bush would release a budget that drastically cuts student aid, Medicaid, child support and funding for the disabled.

It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.

Have and show motivation to do and learn. That’s the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages.

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn’t sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

My hope is that history will continue to repeat itself,

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don’t know.

There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There is nothing back then that there isn’t here now. There is nothing here now –...

They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.

What was needed, was not merely a resolute man, but a man who was also free from the net of legal controls. Such being the circumstances, Quinctius declared that he would nominate Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus...

America is the world’s top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those...

Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.

So much of history is mystery. We don’t know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or...

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

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...