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

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

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

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.

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

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

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.

I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

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.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

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.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

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

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Where love is, there God is also.

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.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

I think, in many people’s minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would’ve been OK.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

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.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

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

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

‚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.

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.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

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.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

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

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

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

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

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

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

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.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

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

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.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.