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

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

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

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

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

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

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

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

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

‚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.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

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

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.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

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.

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.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

History should be written as philosophy.

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

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

I’m doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.

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.

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.