- “Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.” ― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening
- “Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies..” ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
- Ideas shape the course of history. John Maynard Keynes
- “history is what it is. it knows what it did.” ― Danez Smith
- “Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.” ― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
- “Bruno withdrew from the field of history more resolutely than Vigo; that is why I prefer the former’s retrospect but the latter’s prospect. As an anarch, I am determined to go along with nothing, ultimately take nothing seriously – at least not nihilistically, but rather as a border guard in no man’s land, who sharpens his eyes and ears between the tides.” ― Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
- “The only true path to helping yourself is by helping others”RjS” ― rassool jibraeel snyman
- “Dismas even at the time of his degradation and execution finds it within himself not only to acknowledge the innocence of Jesus Christ, but also through his declaration of faith clearly connotes his acceptance of Christ not only as a king, but one who will triumph over death.” ― Mark Thomas Jones, Dismas – The Penitent Thief: An Introduction
- If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. Grace Murray Hopper, inventor of the COBOL computer language
- “الحياة انتظار دائم لشيء جميل .” ― هاني نقشبندي
- “All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
- “…most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened, than in what it meant. It would have been perfectly normal, indeed expected, for a writer in the ancient world, to tell tales of gods and heroes, whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false, but whose underlying message would have been seen as true.” ― Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
- “He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope’s pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life.” ” ― R. Bosworth Smith, Mohammed and Mohammedanism
- “The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.” ― Denis Avey, The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
- “The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
- Universal history is the history of a few metaphors. Jorge Luis Borges
- “If want to become a person with vision, get back and reconnect to your source.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.” ― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice
- It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. Karl Marx
- “Dignity is not a symbol bestowed on man, nor does the word itself possess force. Man’s dignity is a force and the only modus vivendi by which man and his history survive. When mid-twentieth century Germany did not let man live and die with this right, man became an animal. No matter how technologically advanced or sophisticated, when man negates this divine right, he not only becomes self-destructive, but castrates his history and poisons our future. This is what ‘The Nazi Drawings’ are about.” ― Mauricio Lasansky, The Nazi Drawings
- “An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.” ― Tom Bissell, Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation
- People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “History engineered if the facts couldn’t be generally accepted.” ― Toba Beta
- “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
- “There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense… a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. – Bertrand Zobrist” ― Dan Brown, Inferno
- “Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again.” ― Laurence Overmire
- “Today everybody admits that something is wrong with the world, and the critics of Christianity are the very people who feel this most. The most violent attacks on religion come from those who are most anxious to change the world, and they attack Christianity because they think that it is an obstructive force that stands in the way of a real reform of human life. There has seldom been a time in which men were more dissatisfied with life and the more conscious of the need for deliverance, and if they turn away from Christianity it is because they feel that Christianity is a servant of the established order and that it has no real power or will to change the world and to rescue man from his present difficulties. They have lost their faith in the old spiritual traditions that inspired civilization in the past, and they tend to look for a solution in some external practical remedy such as communism, or the scientific organisation of life; something definite and objective that can be applied to society as a whole.” ― Christopher Henry Dawson, Religion and World History: A Selection from the Works of Christopher Dawson
- The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. Susan Sontag
- History is information. Memory is part of your identity. David Miliband