It appeared clear to me – partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks – that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve...

I am not a scholar of the past, but I am a lover of the past.

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels

Shakespeare ‘never owned a book,’ a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know nothing about his incidental possessions....

Sing it again!” And the women would sing again: Measles knocks at the door. Smallpox asks, Who’s there? And Scarlet Fever replies: All three of us are here!

The dangers of the sea should always take precedenceover the violence of the enemy’Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday – because of a doctor’s arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a consult, his neglect to get a full and thorough history. Arrogance! We are...

All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a...

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one’s inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

I see a cathedral, for instance, one that’s stood for centuries and I marvel and I wonder… How many people passed through the doors? What did they pray for? How many wars did they wish...

The White House would like to defy history this year.

I’m a student of conservation history and what I see are cycles, … The trend over time has been a broader level of conservation and concern. But there are peaks and valleys. We had tremendous...

It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself” (p. 5)

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

…I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me. I never felt that more than with this...

You scour these Chinatowns of the mind, translating themlike sutras Xuan Zhang fetched from India, testing waysreturn might be possible against these homesick inventions, trace the traveller’s alien steps across borders, and in between discover...

Ukanda wa Gaza ni jimbo lenye miji minne na kambi mbalimbali za wakimbizi za Umoja wa Mataifa – lenye urefu wa kati ya kilometa 41 au maili 25 na lenye upana wa kati ya kilometa...

The man who did the shooting was a civilian, Peter Kakhovsky, a gifted intellectual of extreme purity of motive in whom the conviction of the necessity of regicide burned with a gem-like flame. Determined to...

History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons...

Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God…. On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi on those who affirmed the existence of God and Holyoake regarded...

It can be very seductive to tell our story to others who will listen because, lets face it, who doesn’t love to ‘commiserate’ (in this context, meaning to share their misery) with other likeminded people....

Calf-deep in the soothing water I indulge myself in the wishful vision. I am not unaware of what such daydreams signify, dreams of becoming an unthinking savage, of taking the cold road back to the...

His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.{Gibbs’s obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius}

History has proven that when the people of Israel unite under a serious and responsible leadership, we know how to overcome all challenges and overcome all obstacles.

Wiesenthal, like few others … personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. Despite this, he was not bitter and fought for justice admirably.

Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates so that my return was akin to turning the leaves of...

Bertahun-tahun lamanya aku sangat ingin menjadi sahabat Amerika, tetapi mereka tak menerimaku. Amerika berulang-ulang salah mengartikan bantuan asing dengan persahabatan. Amerika, aku memerlukan pengertianmu. Aku berteriak-teriak untuk itu. Dan bukan karena aku ingin sesuatu darimu....

Komunisme dapat diberantas dengan pikiran sehat, bukan dengan sikap histeris.

Tetapi disetiap negeri pada suatu waktu ada saja pengacau yang mencoba mengalihkan kekuasaan pemerintah ke dalam tangannya sendiri.

Nah, ketahuilah mengenai hal ini. Aku akan melakukan kerjasama sekalipun dengan setan yang terkutuk, jika hal itu membantu kemerdekaan negeriku.

Kaum imperialis, perhatikan! Apabila dalam waktu yang tidak lama lagi Perang Pasifik menggeledek dan menyambar-nyambar membelah angkasa, apabila dalam waktu yang tidak lama lagi Samudera Pasifik menjadi merah oleh darah dan bumi disekitarnya bergetar oleh...

We have been taught, both inside the classroom and outside of it, that there exists an entity called the West, and that one can think of this West as a society and civilization independent of...

You can believe history books when they tell you when wars were fought. You just can’t trust them as to why.

Life will hack off your head and shit down your neck every chance it gets. I’ve found that consuming drugs and booze, listening to music and always having an excuse in the best way to...

I am different, just like everyone else. And as such, I celebrate by being the same. The world won’t see a truly unique person until the first human clone arrives.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own...

Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d’une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu’il a reçu de son père, quite ce monde où il a conu au moins...

If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.

Soal bersatu sungguhpun beraneka ragam bukanlah soal yang asing bagi agama termasuk dalam Islam. Antara agama dan kebudayaan terdapat interaksi, keadaan saling pengaruh mempengaruhi. Agama mempengaruhi kebudayaan dan kebudayaan mempengaruhi agama pula, terutama dalam manifestasinya....

Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never...

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

We’ve worked hard to get the message out that Black History Month is something we can all celebrate and learn from. We’d love to invite the community people to participate in the parade.

Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe.In this way arose feudal Socialism; half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of...

Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father took his bar exam in 1989, I may never know. Perhaps...

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.

He supported the largest tax increase in Virginia history. He’s raised taxes in each and every office he’s held,