Canada was built on dead beavers.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

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

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

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

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Whatever final judgment awaits ‚Bush v. Gore‘ in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

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

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

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

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

History should be written as philosophy.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

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.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

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.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

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 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.

Empire and liberty.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

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.

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

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

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.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.