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

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

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.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

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 don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

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

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

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.

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.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

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

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

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

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

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.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

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

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

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

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

The Medici created and destroyed me.

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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

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

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

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.

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.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

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.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

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

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

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.

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

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

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

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.