A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. 6 more quotes from Grover Cleveland
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. 2 quotes from Ralph Abernathy
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. 6 more views from William Morris
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. 4 quotes from Rosa Luxemburg
I came, I saw, I conquered. 12 quotes from Julius Caesar
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. 50 quotes from Robert Frost
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me. 5 views from William Jennings Bryan
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. 2 quotes from George M. Humphrey
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. 3 thoughts from Harold Wilson
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. 18 wisdom & wit from Washington Irving
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. 7 quotes from Arnold J. Toynbee
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. 3 sayings from Edward R. Murrow
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. 20 sayings from Anatole France
History is a vision of God's creation on the move. 7 quotes from Arnold J. Toynbee
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. 14 other wisdom & wit from Edward Gibbon
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. 14 quotes from Edward Gibbon
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. 14 other quotes from Clarence Darrow
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. 70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. 70 more views from Thomas Jefferson
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. 17 quotes from John Burroughs
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? 18 other sayings from Emile M. Cioran
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. 14 more quotes from Vladimir Lenin
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. 10 more views from Henry James
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. 10 views from Henry James
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. 11 more quotes from Nicolas Chamfort
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. 70 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. 38 quotes from William Hazlitt
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. 4 quotes from Dean Acheson
Sometimes - history needs a push. 14 other quotes from Vladimir Lenin
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. 14 wisdom & wit from Vladimir Lenin
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. 16 more sayings from Otto von Bismarck
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. 5 wisdom & wit from Nikita Khrushchev
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. 3 wisdom & wit from Edward R. Murrow
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! 5 quotes from Nikita Khrushchev
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. 4 thoughts from Charles Henry Parkhurst
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. 3 more thoughts from Madame de Stael
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. 53 more views from Honore de Balzac
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. 24 more thoughts from James A. Baldwin
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. 21 other wisdom & wit from Karl Marx
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. 21 quotes from Malcolm X
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. 21 wisdom & wit from Karl Marx
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. 33 other quotes from Thomas Huxley
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. 46 other quotes from John F. Kennedy
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. 30 more quotes from Walt Whitman
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. 24 sayings from James A. Baldwin
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. 21 quotes from Karl Marx
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. 9 sayings from Margaret Fuller
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. 21 quotes from Karl Marx
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. 14 more wisdom & wit from Golda Meir
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. 21 wisdom & wit from Karl Marx
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. 26 sayings from Harry S. Truman
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. 4 quotes from Jose Ortega y Gasset
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. 46 other quotes from John F. Kennedy
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. 8 quotes from Joseph Brodsky
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. 15 quotes from Norman Cousins
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. 10 other quotes from John Maynard Keynes
History is a vast early warning system. 15 quotes from Norman Cousins
Ideas shape the course of history. 10 quotes from John Maynard Keynes
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. 6 wisdom & wit from Jacques Yves Cousteau
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. 14 more sayings from Thomas Hardy
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith. 15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. 47 more views from George Orwell
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. 11 sayings from Thomas Mann
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. 28 sayings from William Butler Yeats
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. 14 more views from Jean Anouilh
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. 3 wisdom & wit from Luigi Pirandello
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. 45 views from Aldous Huxley
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. 8 quotes from Benito Mussolini
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. 115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. 19 other views from Alexis de Tocqueville
History is more or less bunk. 32 quotes from Henry Ford
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. 17 more views from Calvin Coolidge
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. 117 more sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. 45 more sayings from Aldous Huxley
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. 7 other wisdom & wit from John Quincy Adams
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. 2 thoughts from Thurgood Marshall
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. 45 thoughts from Aldous Huxley
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. 31 wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. 12 quotes from Franz Kafka
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. 8 other quotes from Benito Mussolini
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. 27 quotes from Dave Barry
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. 13 quotes from Dag Hammarskjold
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. 10 quotes from Hermann Hesse
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. 32 more quotes from Henry Ford
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? 19 sayings from Carl Jung
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. 10 quotes from Hermann Hesse
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. 10 views from Arthur Ashe
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. 7 views from Marcus Garvey
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. 24 thoughts from Lyndon B. Johnson
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. 50 views from Napoleon Bonaparte
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. 9 sayings from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. 2 quotes from Eldridge Cleaver
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. 19 more quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
History is a set of lies agreed upon. 50 views from Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. 50 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. 20 quotes from Herbert Hoover
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. 20 quotes from Herbert Hoover
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' 24 more quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. 12 sayings from Malcolm Forbes
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. 2 wisdom & wit from C. Wright Mills
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. 20 more views from Herbert Hoover
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. 50 other sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. 9 sayings from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. 24 more thoughts from Lyndon B. Johnson
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. 5 more sayings from Charles Bukowski
What is history but a fable agreed upon? 50 more thoughts from Napoleon Bonaparte
World history is a court of judgment. 9 quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. 12 thoughts from Bernard Baruch
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. 6 quotes from Martin Heidegger
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. 26 sayings from Theodor Adorno
History is a race between education and catastrophe. 19 quotes from H. G. Wells
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. 19 more quotes from H. G. Wells
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. 19 views from H. G. Wells
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. 60 more quotes from H. L. Mencken
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. 6 views from Martin Heidegger
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. 10 sayings from Ludwig von Mises
Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. 4 views from Arthur Henderson
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. 33 more sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower
History is the science of things which are not repeated. 16 more views from Paul Valery
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. 29 quotes from Pablo Picasso
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Legend remains victorious in spite of history. 6 views from Sarah Bernhardt
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. 33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. 36 thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. 6 other quotes from William O. Douglas
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. 8 views from Frank Herbert
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. 6 quotes from William O. Douglas
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! 33 other sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. 16 more quotes from Paul Valery
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. 33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
The people who have really made history are the martyrs. 4 more views from Aleister Crowley
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. 36 sayings from Theodore Roosevelt
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. 33 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. 6 other thoughts from Timothy Leary
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. 6 other quotes from Leigh Hunt
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. 8 more sayings from Alphonse de Lamartine
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. 20 quotes from George S. Patton
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. 20 more quotes from George S. Patton
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. 25 quotes from Will Durant
Blood alone moves the wheels of history. 32 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther
History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice. 25 quotes from Will Durant
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. 78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire
History is written by the victors. 74 more wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
History should be written as philosophy. 78 quotes from Voltaire
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. 74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. 19 views from Charles de Gaulle
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. 2 views from Stefan Zweig
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. 78 views from Voltaire
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. 25 more wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. 4 thoughts from Auguste Rodin
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. 7 more quotes from Louis D. Brandeis
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. 25 other quotes from Will Durant
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. 3 other sayings from James K. Polk
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. 74 thoughts from Winston Churchill
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. 52 more thoughts from George Eliot
The history of the world is the world's court of justice. 29 thoughts from Friedrich Schiller
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. 9 sayings from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. 98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. 12 views from Gene Tierney
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. 14 sayings from Wendell Phillips
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. 11 quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. 52 more quotes from George Eliot
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. 2 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Engels
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. 2 other sayings from Alan Shepard
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. 2 other wisdom & wit from Eugene V. Debs
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. 6 other views from Carter G. Woodson
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. 75 sayings from Benjamin Disraeli
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. 75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. 12 sayings from Mao Zedong
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. 12 views from Mao Zedong
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. 18 quotes from Margaret Mead
God cannot alter the past, though historians can. 68 more quotes from Samuel Butler
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. 46 quotes from George Santayana
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. 3 thoughts from Johan Huizinga
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
History shows that there are no invincible armies. 11 quotes from Joseph Stalin
History, a distillation of rumour. 58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. 12 other thoughts from Rudyard Kipling
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. 19 thoughts from Woodrow Wilson
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. 11 other quotes from Rebecca West
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. 58 more quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. 30 other quotes from Gustave Flaubert
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. 75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24. 2 thoughts from David M. Shoup
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. 5 quotes from Anwar Sadat
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. 18 other quotes from Margaret Mead
The history of art is the history of revivals. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. 19 more quotes from Woodrow Wilson
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. 68 sayings from Samuel Butler
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. 19 more views from Woodrow Wilson
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. 12 wisdom & wit from Mao Zedong
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. 23 quotes from Henry Miller
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. 75 more quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. 19 quotes from Woodrow Wilson
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 46 views from George Santayana
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. 2 quotes from Julien Benda
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. 5 sayings from Jean Genet
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. 67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. 13 other thoughts from Dante Alighieri
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. 3 quotes from Edward Kennedy
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. 5 wisdom & wit from Christopher Columbus
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. 30 views from Virginia Woolf
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. 3 other quotes from Augustine Birrell
History develops, art stands still. 26 more wisdom & wit from E. M. Forster
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. 4 views from Konrad Adenauer
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. 9 quotes from Barry Goldwater
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. 12 other sayings from Thomas Merton
Libraries are not made, they grow. 3 sayings from Augustine Birrell
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. 13 sayings from Stephen Gardiner
That great dust-heap called 'history'. 3 more views from Augustine Birrell
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. 2 other views from William McKinley
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. 4 views from Barbara Tuchman
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. 30 more thoughts from Virginia Woolf
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. 40 other views from William James
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. 2 more views from Horatio Alger
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. 2 quotes from William Halsey
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. 11 views from Douglas MacArthur
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. 37 more quotes from Edmund Burke
We are not makers of history. We are made by history. 41 sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.
World history is tragic. 17 views from Friedrich Durrenmatt
All history is incomprehensible without Christ. 2 other sayings from Ernest Renan
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. 22 quotes from Henry Adams
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. 3 other wisdom & wit from Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Failure is impossible. 14 other sayings from Susan B. Anthony
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. 3 thoughts from Nicolaus Copernicus
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. 21 quotes from W. H. Auden
History takes time. History makes memory. 31 more quotes from Gertrude Stein
I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. 22 other thoughts from Henry Adams
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. 26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. 8 quotes from Charles Darwin
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. 31 thoughts from Gertrude Stein
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. 30 other quotes from George Washington
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. 30 other views from George Washington
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. 31 quotes from Gertrude Stein
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. 73 views from Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. 73 sayings from Victor Hugo
A chronicle is very different from history proper. 9 quotes from Howard Nemerov
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. 7 thoughts from Lawrence Durrell
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. 7 more thoughts from Walter Bagehot