History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

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.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

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

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

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

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.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

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.

Empire and liberty.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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

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

If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

The American people have not become heartless.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.