Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I bear a charmed life.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

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

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

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

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

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

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Empire and liberty.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

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

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.