The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

History is written by the victors.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

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.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

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.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Remember that before ‚Roe v. Wade‘ was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that’s what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

History is more or less bunk.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

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.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

I’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.