The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

London is a roost for every bird.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

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.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

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.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

History should be written as philosophy.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.