Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

History is more or less bunk.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

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

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

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

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

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 fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

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

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

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

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

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.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

History should be written as philosophy.

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.

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

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

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

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

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

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

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.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

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.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.