The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

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

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

New roads; new ruts.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

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.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

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

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

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

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

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.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

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

It’s a very good historical book about history.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‚Native passes‘ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

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.